G. V. Jacks, deputy-director of the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science, Rothamsted, delivered a lecture on February 12 to the Royal Society of Arts, in which he dealt with the origin of humus ...

Right? No. Hummus, (also “houmous,” “humus,” “hommus,” or “hommos”) is an Arabic word meaning chickpea. So we know it originated in the Arab world. Case closed. This spread is made ...