Greek Sesame & Walnut Cake

Sesame, cultivated in Mesopotamia at least 3,500 years ago, is one of the oldest condiments and one of the first plants whose seeds were used for edible oil. Herodotus mentions that the Babylonians made sesame oil at least 2,500 years ago. There is even a much older depiction in an Egyptian tomb some 4,000 years old showing a baker adding sesame seeds to his dough. In fact, its name is one of the few to have entered modern languages from the ancient Egyptian (sesemt). The expression “open s