Make Hummus Not War DVD

A film about love, war, sex & politics...with chickpeas.

Could a regional love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East? This was the question on director Trevor Grahams mind when he set out to film Make Hummus Not War, a documentary about the Middle Eastern conflict you dont see on the nightly news. One of the oldest-known prepared foods in human history, hummus is claimed by multiple Middle Eastern nationalities. So when Graham, a self-described hummus tragic, learned of a 2008 Lebanese plan to sue Israel for acting as if it had proprietary rights over the dish, he was intrigued and hungry for more. With Israel, Lebanon and Palestine fighting once again over who owns the hummus heritage he set off on a personal journey into a colourful culinary history. Make Hummus Not War is Grahams humorous journey though the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and New York. Along the way he encounters the doyenne of Middle East cuisine Claudia Roden, zealots, Jewish settlers, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers, novelists and Sheiks, for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.