Couscous own as a main dish. The original name may be derived from the Arabic word "Kaskasa", meaning "to pound small" or the Berber "Seksu", meaning "well rolled", "well formed", or "rounded". Numerous different names and pronunciations for couscous exist around the world. Couscous is or in the United Kingdom and only the latter in the United States. It is sometimes pronounced "kuskusi" () in Arabic, while it is known in Morocco as "seksu"; "kesksu" or ( ; in Algeria as "kosksi" ' (, literally meaning "food"); in Tunisia and Libya "kosksi" or "kuseksi" , in Egypt "kuskusi" (), Sicily "cuscusu"
Dish With One Spoon of various Anishinaabe and other western nations met with a Haudenosaunee council in Onondaga to discuss peace. At that meeting the western nations requested to be part of the Covenant Chain and to share hunting grounds in accordance with the Dish With One Spoon principle. That was followed by a meeting of chiefs from the Five Nations and 19 other nations at Montréal in September, at which a wampum belt described as "making one joint kettle when we shall meet", most probably the Dish With One Spoon belt, was presented by the Haudenosaunee. All parties agreed to a larger meeting