Please do not flick the chickpea.

Hummus Made

A cultural outfit operating across food, sound, publishing, hospitality, design and ritual.

Hummus Made

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The Inquisition

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Fig. 01: Founding memorandum, undated. Set after the field manual pages of FOREVER HUMMUS.

Fig. 1a: Distribution list, complete. No desk declined.

A bowl of chickpeas printed with cartoon characters — Fig. 1b: The committee, assembled.

Hummus Made · Internal MemorandumRef. HM/MEM/01

Dept. of Positioning · Distribution: all desks · cc: Butter Agent

The Outfit

Collective Statement

A transnational cultural outfit operating across food, sound, publishing, hospitality, speculative design, and collective ritual. Hummus Made treats the table as a studio, the joke as a research method, and the humble chickpea as a portable institution for memory, repair, exchange, and very serious nonsense.

The kitchen is a publishing house.

The Manifesto

Five operational principles for moving through the room without spilling the dip.

01Speak sincerely about absurd things.
02Treat small things with institutional seriousness.
03Never fully explain the joke.
04Keep humour warm, not cynical.
05Food is memory, ritual, exchange, and repair.

Selected plates from the book

The Book

Crayon-drawn CHiCK PLEASE spread: chickpeas and a ceramic bowl on a salmon ground — Plate 2ACHiCK PLEASE. Crayons were involved.

FOREVER HUMMUS. Eighty six pages in which every spread hijacks a different genre and plays it completely straight. Selected plates below. The rest remain in the vitrine.

Satellite dish painted as a bowl of hummus, from the NEWS FEED spread — Plate 2BNews reception, somewhere with good hummus.

Comic spread in which bowls of hummus and moutabel argue and reconcile as Team Mezze — Plate 2DHummus vs Moutabel. It ends in mezze.

Parody supermarket advertisement portrait of a jar of hummus — Plate 2CThe jar. A supermarket ad with no supermarket.

Edition information

Limited edition of 100.
Launched at Art Dubai, 14 May 2026.
At select stockists now. The list is being typed.

Inquire about the book

Fridge magnet letters spelling Zen Hummus above toast spread with raked hummus and chickpeas — Plate 2FZen hummus. The garden is edible.

Poster reading Jazz and Hummus in English and Arabic above a bowl of hummus on a roadside table — Plate 2EJazz & Hummus. The residency continues.

Television remote resting on a takeaway tub of hummus — Plate 2GPrestige television, with dip.

The word hummus written in curls of dark hair at the nape of a neck — Plate 2HThe word, growing in.

A single pink chickpea in sharp focus against a blurred violet seascape

A Contemplation.

Like eating hummus by the sea

Fig. 2i: One chickpea, considering.

Findings from the research desk

Field Notes

Field Notes on Civilisation

A Provenance Report

The Official Answer: Nobody knows. Everyone is furious about this.
Nations Currently Claiming Invention: At least 5: Lebanon, Palestine, Greece, Syria, Turkey. Cyprus is thinking about it.
Wars Started By Hummus: Zero. Make of that what you will.

Timeline of Blame

3000 BCChickpeas farmed in the Middle East. Nobody makes a paste yet. Opportunity missed.
13th CFirst written hummus bi tahini recipe: Egypt. Everyone else pretends not to see this.
2008Lebanon files lawsuit against Israel over hummus. This is a real thing that happened.
2009Lebanon breaks world record. A 2,000kg bowl. The argument continues anyway.
TodayYou are reading a website about it. We are all implicated.

A5 ops proofGrid ref. no. 001

From the CRUSH field manual, pp. 19 to 22

The Hummus Protocol

A procedure exists. It is followed.

1.1Soak the chickpeas overnight. Overnight is not negotiable and never has been.
2.1The pestle is lowered with respect. What follows is not respectful.
3.1Tahini is introduced. The two pretend they have not met before.
4.1Salt, lemon, a patient arm. Stop when it listens.

Field exercise 1

Press and hold to crush. Do not let go. Clause 2.2 forbids it.

Chick Pete

His section is stuck in customs.

Import declaration

Item: One (1) section, personal.
Contents: Declined to declare.
Inspector's note: The photograph is real. We checked.
Release date: When he is ready.

Setting up the table...

Museum labels for things you can hold.

Objects

Poster of Chick Pete walking with the book, saying one day I'll become hummus

FOREVER HUMMUS, the book

The founding document.

Edition of 100 · At stockists

Woven rug of a Nokia 3310 playing Snake, the screen reading HUMMUS

FOREVER, the rug

A 3310 in wool. The snake is winning.

Forthcoming

Physical figurine of Chick Pete standing on a surface

Chick Pete, figurine

He stands about this tall.

Not for sale. Yet.

Two glowing POP POP lightboxes in wood cases on tripod legs

The lightbox

For rooms that need better news.

Forthcoming

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What's Cooking

In peer reviewA forthcoming paper on butter chicken. The reviewers have been warned.
In developmentDesign installations for rooms that deserve them. Institutions may form an orderly queue.

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Appendix A · Fixations

Subjects under permanent review.

A1Evidence of garlic
A2The absence of worry
A3The patience of falcons
A4Embroidered peace
A5Adjacent peaches
A6Suspicion of fava

The Gazette

The Hummus Gazette.

Sent rarely. Mostly worth opening.

Thank you for eating with us.

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