“As it was Lent, the monks (of the Chaldean monastery of Rabban, or St. Hormuzd) were unprovided with meat, but I received with much thankfulness a bowl of red lentils, made into pottage, and called Ades. This is evidently the same with the Adesh of the Scriptures, the word used in the original Hebrew to signify the red pottage for which Esau sold his birthright to his brother Jacob. The Ades in question was savoury in the extreme, and its odour very tempting to a hungry man. Its taste resembled exceedingly that well-known luxury of sailors, pea soup.” —Fletcher’s Nineveh.