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Northshore October 2025
Walking through the manufacturing facility at Cedar's Mediterranean Foods is a little like visiting Willy Wonka's hummus factory, if he had ever built one.Written by Alexandra PecciPhotographs by David LierThe sprawling Ward Hill plant bangs and whirs as hummus is squeezed into plastic containers and sent down conveyor belts. There's a 20-foot silo filled with olive oil and huge, 2,000-pound bags of dry chickpeas waiting to be steamed and squashed.What started in 1981 with founder Abe Hanna making hummus in his home kitchen has blossomed into a more than $50 million enterprise, with products that can be found on grocery store shelves from coa
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