Ethiopian flat bread is one of the world's few foods I don't like. Always tastes to me like it was soaked in vinegar. (Maybe I have not had the good version or something.) I like just about every other Ethiopian food I've tried though.
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Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2005 2:04:49 pm PDT #8953 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Vortex - Aug 17, 2005 2:11:23 pm PDT #8954 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I like the tang of the injera. It works well with the spiciness of the food. I think that it's not designed to be eaten on its own.
Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2005 2:15:27 pm PDT #8955 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Maybe the version of the food I had it with was too mildly spiced - overcome by the bread.
DavidS - Aug 17, 2005 2:21:54 pm PDT #8956 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I haven't eaten Ethiopian food for a while, though I do love it. I'm down with anything stewish or saucy.
I had the cuban sandwich for lunch and then an organic fruit smoothie. 'Twas good.
Then I spent too long lunchtime skimming through Sean Wilsey's tell-all memoir
Oh the Glory Of It All.
It was very entertaining, and I recommend it for people who like stories about high society and Big Drama and slightly nutty rich people, or skating or boarding school or San Francisco in the 70s and 80s or bitchy paybacks. It's well-written. Wilsey is in with the Eggers/McSweeney crowd.
There was a lot of aftermath locally, as his evil stepmother is the doyenne of San Francisco society. Plus Danielle Steel.
JenP - Aug 17, 2005 2:26:33 pm PDT #8957 of 10002
Ethiopian food is the one kind I've not had luck with. The first time, I bit into the hottest pepper EVER and couldn't taste anything for the rest of my lifethe meal. The second time I could taste the bread long enough to realize it was too spongey for me to enjoy, because it remined me of, well, a sponge. I'd try it again, but so far... not so much with the liking.
Theodosia - Aug 17, 2005 2:31:53 pm PDT #8958 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
The last time I had injera, it was the greyish kind, which I kind of liked. It turns out to be made with this rare only-grown-in-Ethiopia pseudo-grain, which name I can't remember just now.
amych - Aug 17, 2005 2:34:27 pm PDT #8959 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
teff!
P.M. Marc - Aug 17, 2005 2:37:21 pm PDT #8960 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Mmm. Teff.
I like injera, but haven't had Ethiopian since '01, on account of it being what I was eating when I was knocked on my ass by a UTI I'd thought I'd fought off.
Ever since, I've had bad associations with it.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 2:38:32 pm PDT #8961 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't had Ethiopian in forever, and am now infused by a need to have Cuban. Pork. Garlic. Pork. I'm trying to cook less pork, because it was all I'd cook. So I need to go outside to get it.
Theodosia - Aug 17, 2005 2:40:49 pm PDT #8962 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I wish there was Ethiopian takeout somewhere easy to get to around here.