ETHIOPIAN CUISINE

Food Culture

Dinner Bread Components Coffee Ceremony Dining etiquette Religious Influence

Tibs: sauteed meat/vegetables Injera: unleaven bread Niter kibbeh: infused with Served from jebena Mesob: tabletop on which food is Coptic church is dominant sect. ginger, garlic, and spices clay pot where Coffee is boiled traditionally served on Kitfo: raw ground Used as tablecloth dictates food customs Berbe: chili pepper and Preparer makes coffee and lets Invitation to private home Gored gored: cubed beef Typically 20 in. diameter Fasting days in which meat other spices guest sample the smell is an honor is prohibited : thick stew, meat or vegan Kategna: wrap bread one dresses well and shakes Beans ground with mokecha each persons hand is always prohibited Served in si’ni Always offered a cup of coffee, Church dictates how the meals Breakfast Snacks Served with sugar or salt it’s rude to not accept have to be prepared Fit-fit: shreaded injera with spices Dabo kallo: baked bread 3 rounds of coffee accompanied Dinners are relatively formal, Meats allowed: table manners are a form Chechebsa: pancake with spices Kallo: grains with burning of franklin cense beef of respect Dulet: spices, liver, peppers, etc. Popcorn lamb Before meal, a small jug is Fatira: fried pancake with honey brought to the table goat extend hand over the basin while water is poured Only use the right hand for eating Eldest is the first to take food from the communal plate Goorsha: serving another guest and putting the food directly into Drinks History their mouths Urged to take more food, sign of hospitality

Coffee 4th millenium BC agriculture When food injera table cloth is cattle consumed, dinner is over End of 2nd millenium Meal ends with ritual hand wheat, barley, grains, washing in coffee Tej: honey wine vegetables, lentils Ethiopoians possibly learned agriculture from Egyptians Tella: home-brewed beer Food grown collectively

Atmet: barley, oat-flower with Coffee hols claim to originate water, sugar and butter from Ethiopia Starbucks vowed to support and promote their coffee