LET’S DISH! Let’s Talk About Chickpeas
A chickpea isn’t a pea at all – it is really a legume. It also has other names: garbanzo bean in Spanish and hamaz in Arabic. So why is this little, creamy legume called “chickpea?” Interestingly, the Latin word “cicer” was lent to Cicero, the famous Roman orator, since his family grew chickpeas. The word …