Last month we explored one our favorite healthy comfort foods around, guacamole. This month, we head on over to the eastern Mediterranean for another: hummus. First, for your hummus to taste as authentic as possible you have to pronounce it the right way. ‘Hummus’ doesn’t sound so much like ‘hum and ‘muss’ stuck together, […]
As we continue to spend all our time at home with family, comfort foods are more important than ever. One of our all-time favorites is guacamole, or guac for short. The word “guacamole” originates with the Aztecs and comes from the word “ahuaca-mulli”, which literally means “avocado sauce”. “Ahuacatl”, the Aztec name for avocado, […]
Bread is one of the oldest human-made foods. In fact, while the baking of bread truly got underway around 10,000 years ago with the spread of agriculture, the oldest evidence of bread-making has been discovered in a 14,500-year-old site in Jordan. Since then, bread in its countless forms, has become a staple throughout the Middle […]
You may know Quebec as the French-speaking part of Canada or the birthplace of Céline Dion, Leonard Cohen… and ice and snow. But the fact is it’s also home to a rich 500-year-old culture, forged by its first indigenous inhabitants, French settlers and generations of immigrants from Europe, Africa and around the world who have […]
