Actor Theo Rossi enjoys some olives at Bavel on his Middle Eastern restaurant crawl around Los Angeles. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Theo Rossi is a pita bread and hummus connoisseur. The actor ...

Michael and I recently returned from a trip to New York City to see family and friends. It was a nice getaway from Iowa where political candidates dominate the airwaves and the upcoming caucuses are ...

You may not be able to pinpoint The Hummus & Pita Co.’s Mediterranean offerings to a specific country. But this was cofounder Dave Pesso’s intention, as he wants the brand’s menu to be a metaphorical ...

The Hummus & Pita Co., a fan-favorite fresh and healthy Mediterranean fast casual restaurant headquartered in New York City, is now offering its signature soul-satisfying dishes in a generous ...

Dave Pesso is out to prove that an everyday food overseas can be transformational in America. Hummus & Pita Co., which Pesso and his mother, Janice Axelrod, founded in Manhattan, has a new location at ...

I've made so much not-so-great hummus in my life that I almost stopped trying to make it altogether. It probably started after high school, when I first had really soft, savory hummus at a ...

The key to it all is the saj bread. A flatbread from the Bedouin tradition, also called markouk bread, it’s thinner and more stretchy than pita. Gita Pita makes this in house, finishing it to order on ...

Soom is the Hebrew word for sesame — and there’s plenty of sesame to be had at the new Soom Soom eatery, which recently opened at The Works outdoor mall (previously known as The Edge) in El Segundo.

I still vividly remember the first time our baking instructor at culinary school made pita bread, shortly after dawn in a brightly lit Pasadena baking lab many years ago. She made a batch of bread ...

In the movie You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Adam Sandler and his Israeli countrymen are so enamored with hummus that they practically shower with the chickpea condiment. In Miami, people are just as ...