Along the Path

The Hummus Blog is dedicated to informing readers about hummus, its nutritious value, how to eat it, where to get it and even how to make it.

The latest Hummus Blog entry is about combining the spiritual with culinary. I.e. If you’re planning a visit to Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa, HB advises stopping into Hummus Abu Shukri for the “real deal” experience.

Abu Shukri is at the end of the Via Dolorosa in the Christian Quarter and…

…Apparently, August is not a very good time to walk the hilly kilometer or so from where we were to Abu Shukri, so we got there exhausted. Afterwards, when going up Via Dolorosa, we understood why it is called “the way of suffering”. Be smarter than us: try to find your way to the top of the Via, then go down and end up at Abu Shukri. The way back is not hardly as steep…

But about the hummus:

There seems to be a great dispute over the question who has “the secret” of Abu Shukri’s hummus, who’s “the original Abu Shukri”. A well established school of Hummusiologists argue that the REAL Abu Shukri, left Abu Gosh decades ago, and his sons today make the same hummus in their restaurant, exotically located at the heart of old Jerusalem, just in front of the lower end of the Via Dolorosa.

Check it out.

via www.israelity.com