ETHIOPIAN CUISINE-DELICACIES OF ETHIOPIA

With people from so many different ethnic groups, the food and drinks of Ethiopia are varied.

A typical dish is Wot, a hot spicy stew of meat or vegetables, seasoned with a blend of Berbere. It is often made with Doro (Chicken), and normally served with injera, the traditional spongy pancake made from a fermented teff flour batter.

In most good restaurants, or in the local coffee house, you will find delicious dishes that reflect the customs and the ingredients of the region.

In Addis Ababa, as in most of the larger cities, visitors will also find a wide range of restaurants that reflect the influences of other cuisines. All large hotels have international restaurants, but elsewhere in the city you can sample Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, Italian, French, Greek and other cuisines.

Ethiopia produces its own wines. Dukam and Gouder are fine reds, Axumite is sweeter and Crystals is a dry white wine. Ethiopia's famous honey wine, or Tej, is found all over the country as is Tela, a local beer and Katikala, a distilled liquor.

ETHIOPIAN CUISINE

Ethiopian cuisine is unique by way of ceremony, flavor, color and presentation. First decorated metal or clay water jugs are brought to the table and their contents poured over the guest's outstretched hands into small bowl below. this cleansing something followed by a short prayer of thanksgiving.

 

ETHIOPIA: AN ANCIENT LAND

Ethiopia is old beyond imagination. More then three million years ago, one of our first ancestors walked that portion of the earth that is now Ethiopia: namely, Lucy (Dinkenesh to Ethiopian), meaning ‘Thou Art Wonderful’ the remains of this ‘ firs human’ – an almost complete hominid skeleton—were discovered in 1974 at Hadar on the lower Awash River in Ethiopia’s barren and forbid ding Dankil region.

It is widely thought that Dinkenesh’s homeland—Ethiopia –holds the key to a myriad of other questions that have puzzled palaeoanthropologist about our past. To this end, palaeoanthropological and archaeological work continues at Hadar and at a number of other sites along the Ethiopia section of the Great Rift Valley and in the Omo Valley. More