Ful Medames with Chickpeas

Ful Medames with Chickpeas ¦ Photo Jack McNulty

My first brush with Ful Medames came after reading about it in Paula Wolfert’s classic book, The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean.  Here’s how she described it:

“The rich eat ful for breakfast, the poor eat ful for lunch, but only animals eat ful for dinner. So goes the Egyptian proverb. Ful, pronounced …