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Ethiopian Culture: Three Facets – A Travel Blog

Title image: Sunset over Lalibela and a beautiful Ethiopian culture.

Our visit to Ethiopia was wonderful from all points of view: well organized by our excellent guide, Elias Alemayehu, visually stunning and vastly informative. Three aspects of Ethiopian culture are striking:

Ethiopian Culture: The Food

I like Ethiopian food because it is rich in diverse vegetables. Others like it because it is rich in diverse meat.

Here’s the inside of a typical restaurant. We’re at Dashen Terera in Addis Ababa.

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You start by washing your hands, very correct.

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Phillip washing up

The food is served family style. No one orders for him or herself on separate plates, although you may ask for different things.

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The food is very attractively presented, so colorful and always on top of spongey injira bread.

Here’s another meal we had. All consistently delicious.Ethiopian culture

Honey wine comes in a very particularly shaped bottle. You’re supposed to drink using only two fingers.

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I’m cheating by holding the bottom of the bottle with my other hand

Ethiopian Culture: Daily Life

Making Ingira

While we were visiting Lalibela Elias had us stop at outside town at the home of a traditional family. There we saw the injira-making process, since this probiotic, iron-rich bread is fundamental to Ethiopian cuisine.

You start with a sorghum grain called tef:

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Your grind it up and make batter which you let ferment over a couple of days and store in a gourd:

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Then you pour the batter in a circular pattern onto a hot plate over burning coals:

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Here are some results:

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The top one is the one I poured. You see that it is missing its center. That’s because I poured out too much in my first passes around the plate. Amateur!

The daughter helped:

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We are served:

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The family has a house on one side of the road:

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with a shed for animals

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And a couple more houses on the other side of the road.

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The Coffee Ceremony

We also experienced this part of daily life in Lalibela.

You start with the unroasted beans:

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Then you roast them:

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When the beans are properly roasted you can grind them:

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While the coffee is brewing you make popcorn for your guests to eat

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Popcorn? Popcorn! Now I’m totally into this

Here we go:

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By the way that’s frankincense burning on the plate in front of the table

Now this is a fresh, smooth cup of Ethiopian coffee with a sprig of parsley:

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No, the Ethiopians are not sloppy pourers. I noticed that coffee is consistently served with some in the dish. It’s probably like the way Japanese serve sake – you pour until the glass overflows, a sign of generosity

When we returned to Addis I understood the coffee ceremony display in the hotel lobby:

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Ethiopian Culture: Singing and Dancing
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Ge’ez script on the sign! The topmost graphs spell: da-she-n (the name of a mountain) then below there is: te-ra-ra. You can see the T clearly, then the next two graphs are the same, namely [ra]

On of first night in Addis we went to Dashen Terera, a traditional restaurant where there’s great food, as I’ve shown you above, and plenty of singing and dancing:

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On our last night in Addis we were taken to this – mostly tourist – spot, very well done, and saw a version of this:

Finally, my favorite performer:

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Love the green hair pick. It’s a good look

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