Let's talk about chickpeas and his origins!

The name "chickpea" traces back through the french chiche to cicer, latin for ‘chickpea’ (from which the Roman lastname Cicero was taken)

Chick peas are perhaps better known by their name garbanzo beans. They are a roundish, beige to light green members of the legume family grown primarily in part of West Asia, India, and in the Mediterranean. Most are familiar with chick peas as either used whole in salads, or ground up to make the popular Middle Eastern dish hummus.

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