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What is hummus?
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chickpeas
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Denny wrote:chickpeas
Same stuff as garbanzo beans?
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It's much more than chickpeas. (Garbanzo=chickpeas). It is one of the truly great dishes of the world.

Chickpeas (canned ones are fine), tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic are the basic ingredients. Tahini is a paste made of hulled and slightly roasted sesame seeds. All put in a food processor, sometimes with a bit of water, and made into a sort of dip. Topped with a bit of olive oil and served with pita, usually.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I simply won't rest until you have some.
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So, what did Marcus Tullius Cicero and Hummus have in common?

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Bloomfield wrote:So, what did Marcus Tullius Cicero and Hummus have in common?
Both were made up largely of mashed chickpeas?
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Marc's cognomen means "hummus."

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I like Dale's hypothesis better. I said hypothesis.
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Both are tasty with warm pita bread?
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Pazziato wrote:Marc's cognomen means "hummus."
"Chickpea", at least, anyway. "Cicero" is obviously related to the modern "ceci", an Italian term for chickpeas. Interesting, and I wondered why a member of Roman society would have such a name.

But my quick little dip (pun unintended) into Wikipedia brought me this tidbit of explanation:
Cicero's cognomen, personal surname, is Latin for chickpea. Romans often chose down-to-earth personal surnames. Plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of Cicero's ancestors who had a cleft in the tip of his nose resembling a chickpea. Plutarch adds that Cicero was urged to change this deprecatory name when he entered politics, but refused, saying that he would make Cicero more glorious than Scaurus ("Swollen-ankled") and Catulus ("Puppy").
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"Chickpea", at least, anyway.
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In Arabic the word hummus is used to describe the dish or just chickpeas by themselves. The full name of the dish is hummus bi tahina (Arabic: حُمُّص بطحينة) "chickpeas with tahini". Hummus is popular in various local forms throughout the Middle Eastern world.
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I wonder if history would have played out differently if his name had simply been "Garbonzo."
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I still look at Wikipedia a bit askance - as I do all dictionaries and encyclopedias - but you can hope to get good stuff there when you're in a pinch.

I will never be able to look at pix of Richard M. Nixon or Walter Matthau again without thinking, Ah! How Ciceronian, that nose.

As to "garbanzo", I never liked that word. Always sounded faux-Iberic to me, like that would-be Mexicoid food chain that used to be called Zantigo. Or is it still around?

And by the way, I think I'll name my next puss Catulus.
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Nanohedron wrote:
Pazziato wrote:Marc's cognomen means "hummus."
"Chickpea", at least, anyway. "Cicero" is obviously related to the modern "ceci", an Italian term for chickpeas. Interesting, and I wondered why a member of Roman society would have such a name.

But my quick little dip (pun unintended) into Wikipedia brought me this tidbit of explanation:
Cicero's cognomen, personal surname, is Latin for chickpea. Romans often chose down-to-earth personal surnames. Plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of Cicero's ancestors who had a cleft in the tip of his nose resembling a chickpea. Plutarch adds that Cicero was urged to change this deprecatory name when he entered politics, but refused, saying that he would make Cicero more glorious than Scaurus ("Swollen-ankled") and Catulus ("Puppy").
Puppies SO beat garbanzo beans.

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Nanohedron wrote:I never liked that word. Always sounded faux-Iberic to me
Sorta like calling ground cherries "tomatillos."
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Walden wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:I never liked that word. Always sounded faux-Iberic to me
Sorta like calling ground cherries "tomatillos."
Whoa there, Waldenator. 'Round these parts ground cherries are Physalis pruinosa, and tomatillos are Physalis ixocarpa. Related, but not interchangeable.

Thinking I had something of a handle on these things, I asked a fellow of Mexican background once if "tomatillo" essentially meant "little tomato", and he said, "No."

I shouldn't have asked.
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