Tahini: The New Queen of the Kitchen
You do not need a special celebration to crown the queen of the new kitchen: the tahini. It deserves the title because of a unique combination of health, taste and dominant personality alongside the ability to easily absorb flavors such as sour, sweet and spicy.
Tahini is actually 100% sesame seeds. The oldest document on the use of sesame was written in cuneiform script 4,000 years ago and discussed the custom to serve idols wine with sesame seeds. In the writings of the historian Horodotus we learn about the systematic growth of sesame seeds 3,500 years ago in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
At the time, sesame was used mainly to produce oil. The popular tahini is produced from peeling sesame seeds, roasted and grounded through a number of machines that simul...