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Lebanon and Israel are at war again — over hummus.
Last weekend, 300 chefs in Lebanon created a plate of hummus weighing more than 23,000 pounds, or 10 tons, more than doubling an Israeli record.
With an official Guinness World Records representative on hand, the chefs reportedly used eight tons of boiled chickpeas, two tons of sesame paste, two tons of lemon juice and 154 pounds of olive oil.
A day later, Lebanese chefs continued the record-setting food frenzy, frying up 11,381 pounds of falafel.
The weekend feat shattered the record set by 50 chefs in the Arab-Israeli village of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem in January, when they created a four-ton plate of hummus to beat a record set in Lebanon several months earlier.
Lebanon and Israel long have had dueling claims over which culture came up with hummus. Lebanese chefs accuse Israel of stealing the product, and exporting and marketing it around the world as an Israeli creation.
“If you enter any good hummus restaurant in this region, you will see Jews and Muslims, Palestinians and Israelis sitting at the same table, eating the same food,” Shooky Galili, an Israeli who blogs about hummus, told CNN. “I think in the end this rivalry will show that we in the Middle East have far more in common than the things that divide us.” — jta

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