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Warm chickpeas pureed with tahini, lemon and garlic, spooned into a shallow bowl with olive oil, whole chickpeas and pita for scooping, the everyday lunch at Tel Aviv's hummusias; in Israel we have verified places to eat it in Tel Aviv. Start with where to eat Hummus in Tel Aviv.
Warm chickpeas pureed with tahini, lemon and garlic, spooned into a shallow bowl with olive oil, whole chickpeas and pita for scooping, the everyday lunch at Tel Aviv's hummusias.
A chickpea puree appears in a 13th-century Aleppo cookbook, though tahini and garlic entered the recipe later, recorded in an 1885 Lebanese cookbook. The dish was already a Levantine staple when Tel Aviv's hummus counters opened: the Yemenite family behind Shlomo and Doron has made it since 1937, and Ali Karavan, known as Abu Hassan, sold it from a Jaffa cart from 1959 before opening his HaDolfin Street shop in 1972. Israeli industrial production from 1958 turned hummus into a packaged supermarket product, but the city's hummusias still serve it the older way, warm from the pot with whole chickpeas and a slick of olive oil, eaten at a shared counter until the pot empties for the day.
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