Some scholars even claim an Old Testament passage indicates that Jews ate hummus in Biblical times.
At a DVD release party last week at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, middle-aged women confessed to feeling like schoolgirls as they ate hummus and snapped up copies of a new series, "Lord of the Abs," $70 for 5 discs.
In reality, many of us regularly eat hummus quickly at a worktop, busily cutting carrots into batons and retrieving crackers from a box, while doing other jobs in the kitchen.
When she's not writing, she's usually running, playing ultimate Frisbee, obsessively shopping at thrift stores, eating hummus and fudgsicles, or trying to save the world.
"The main goal of our campaign was to provide students with the ability to eat hummus without supporting human rights violations, and raise consciousness about ways in which we as Princeton students are involved in human rights violations".
Unlike almost anywhere else in Baghdad, you could dine at the cafeteria in the Republican Palace for six months and never eat hummus, flatbread, or a lamb kebab.
Ideally, you should have a varied selection of these available every time you eat hummus.
When I first went down to Rada, everyone was eating hummus and pesto and I'd never heard of things like that.
In the back room of a pub in Kentish Town, a group of middle-class Londoners are perched on velvet-covered stools, eating hummus and talking about property.
It was a chance for me to join the cause, promote workers' rights, do my bit to get Labour back in power and eat hummus and pitta bread with intelligent staff who enlighten me with their deeply thought-out political theories.
