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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3055414" data-attributes="member: 1125"><a href="http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/israel/passion_cakes.html" target="_blank">There is even evidence that in the city of Ur, located in ancient Sumeria, street vendors sold cakes to passersby and that these cakes were very similar to the modern day Middle-Eastern favorite known today as baklava.</a>It is known, for example, that as long ago as 9,000 years, the people of ancient Jericho enjoyed making cakes by dipping unleavened bread into a mixture of honey and herbs (same site)Okay no Jalapenos but they did have humous and tchina and stuffed AubergineMiddleeastern Takeaway food -  felafel and shawarma (meats on a skewer), tchina, humous, a variety of salads and seasonings all placed in pita bread.Other toppings for pita bread include sauerkraut, red cabbage, marinated sweet and hot peppers, an assortment of olives, pickles made out of cucumbers, onions, tomatoes and carrots and at least five different preparations of auberginethe main starch staples of the diet were wheat, rice, lentils and humous beans. The most popular vegetable was eggplant; spices and herbs such as cardamom, parsley, rosemary, thyme, coriander, cumin and mint were used lavishly as were the various members of the onion family, including garlic. Lemons, peppers and tomatoes were popular; the principal cooking oil was olive oil; yogurt was widely used; and even though fresh fruits were the most popular dessert, sweets were much appreciated. Even then, eggplant was roasted, stuffed, fried or pureed; humous and tchina were already popular; and any vegetable large enough to have been stuffed was likely to have been filled with some combination of meat, vegetables and rice. pomegranate seeds in sweet wine,  sweet biscuits, flavored ice - yes Sorbet!berries in honeyed cheese</blockquote>

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