Middle Eastern cuisine fava are cooked like other green beans, boiled and dressed in oil, or stewed with meat. The haricot beans and black-eyed beans are also common. Lentils, split peas, and chickpeas are widely used in soups, with rice, in salads, or with meat. Hummus, made from chickpeas and sesame paste, originated in Syria and Lebanon. Stuffed vegetables are a dish most associated with the Middle East in the popular mind. They are commonly called dolma, the Turkish word meaning "stuffed," but also the Arabic mahshi. Grape leaves, chard, and cabbage are stuffed with rice, ground meat, pine nuts, and spices, and
Wicked Is the Vine Wicked Is the Vine Wicked is the Vine is a 1947 radio play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was inspired by the Lizzie Borden murder. In 1918, two sisters, Sarah and Ellie Vinson, come into conflict. It results in murder.. Elliott wrote the play in Australia for "Lux Radio Theatre". It was one of the few original plays they had commissioned. He wrote it while trying to emigrate to the US. The original production aired in 1947 and starred Brenda Dunrich and Neva Carr Glynn. One listener wrote in complaining saying the show was "well acted and well produced, we