When was the last time you were served by a male waiter in an Ethiopian restaurant?
If you are like me, only once; and in that instance the waiter happened to the owner of the restaurant. Ethiopian restaurants servers, in general are only females. Of course, I am talking about the restaurants here in the [...]
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A friend who decided to cook for a group of people did not have NiTr Kibe, so she decided to cook with regular butter. I must say it lacked depth compared to what I am used to. Ethiopian food is complicated to start from scratch.
In a sense, all ethnic food is complicated. For Indian food, [...]
It’s back in the 1980s. Thursday afternoon. I’m sitting on the second to last stair of the back door undoing my braids. Through the curtain of frizzy hair on my face, I could see the maid baking Injera in the baking house (mead’bet). I could also see her saying something to me, but my mind [...]
Published by March 7th, 2006 in Childhood, Noteworthy and Social.