Injera, Ethiopia’s staple food, was invented by a Dutchman in 2003. That’s according to the European Patent Office, which lists the Netherlands’ Jans Roosjen as the “inventor” of teff flour and ...

Read any professional or amateur review of a taqueria and you’d be hard-pressed to find analysis that doesn’t touch on the quality of the tortillas. Are they corn or flour? Is the restaurant making ...

Quick look: Ethiopian food can seem intimidating, especially with long names like ye’tshom kwalima kwas, or white-bean sausage dumplings, and ye’denich be’kaysir atakilt, or tender potatoes with ...

The ancient grain is eaten with every meal in Ethiopia, but unlike quinoa or farro, the nutrient-dense food is largely unknown to the rest of the world. Teff, an ancient grain from the Horn of Africa, ...

Ever since the pandemic hit there’s been a social media outbreak of sourdough bread pictures. During spells of home confinement, an inner baker seems to have afflicted many Americans, causing a ...

‘We don’t even say ‘our daily bread’ in Ethiopia; in our prayers, we say ‘our daily injera.’ That’s how important it is,’ says chef Yohanis Gebreyesus You can save this article by registering for free ...

Diners press toward the banquet table at downtown Sacramento’s Queen Sheba Ethiopian restaurant, breathing in a scent of home. The sharp, piquant smell of garlic, onions and ginger pierces the air, ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — With a swift flick of the wrist, Gennet Wondimu, owner of Ye Geny Injera & Mini Market in Inglewood, California, slipped a woven mat, called a sefed, under a freshly prepared ...

This is the first in an occasional series on farmers working to preserve their cultural foodways by growing heritage crops in the Bay Area. Whoever we are, wherever we're from, we're all exiles, if ...

“Don’t call it bread; don’t call it crȇpes: Injera is injera,” says Serkaddis Alemu of the ancient Ethiopian staple. For more than a decade, Alemu has served her spicy, savory Ethiopian lunch to Santa ...