Hummus

New on the shelf: A quality suitcase, a crunchy cracker, and Eden Fines’s brand

New products in Israel: RITZ crackers, Danone MULTI yogurt, a quality trolley suitcase by Rikuchet, Barilla pasta, Achla hummus, crispy Tivall schnitzel, and a new FIFI series by Eden Fines.

RITZ cracker.
Friends mugs at McDonald’s

New on the shelf

Chickpea patties on tahini

Chickpea patties on tahini worth every bite

Mana Hama Wok and Ramen, Osem

New food products that arrived in stores


Hummus: Advocacy group concerned over health of supermarket brands

The Environmental Working Group is an advocacy organization, funded in part by the organic food industry, that commissions research on the health of consumer products.

Hummus and Falafel, Israel's favorite chickpea-based dishes

Check your hummus: Environmental organization finds possible carcinogen

Laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found glyphosate, the chemical better known as Roundup, in 80% of conventional chickpeas and hummus tested.

Cases of Sabra Classic Hummus are viewed on the shelf of a grocery store on April 9, 2015 in New York City

Pascale's Kitchen: Readers’ special requests

In this week’s column I will be highlighting four outstanding recipes that I’ve received from valued readers, which I haven’t had a chance to formally present to the public.

PEA, CABBAGE AND POTATO CURRY

Israeli food-tech startup attracts $15 million for chickpea innovation

Their chickpea innovations have already been launched in the United States, Europe and Israel.

InnovoPro's chickpea-based milk

Super Bowl to be rocked by controversial LGBT Sabra hummus commercial

The ad, to be broadcast during the Superbowl half time, will feature drag queens Kim Chi and Miz Cracker.

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Sabra to feature RuPaul drag queens in Super Bowl commercial first

In the video, Miz Cracker ungracefully attempts to put a football helmet over her substantially large wig.

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2020 is set to be the year of the chickpea

Dessert hummus was not the only chickpea-based snack to enter our lives this decade

GREEN HUMMUS

Sabra hummus banned by Student Senate from Dickinson College store

’A Resolution To Endorse the Banning of Sabra Hummus from the Devil’s Den’

GREEN HUMMUS

The meat-stuffed pita that’s taking Israel by storm

Tel Avivans are drooling over arayes — grilled pita sandwiches filled with ground lamb mixed with chopped onions, parsley and spices.

Arayes is called the perfect dish

Thief tries to steal chickpeas from kibbutz in southern Israel

Israel Police on Sunday arrested a man for his alleged attempt to steal half a ton of chickpeas from a kibbutz in southern Israel.

raw chickpea in bowl and on a table