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A Caffeinated Ceremony of a Different Flavor

Posted by Cinnabar on April 24th, 2009

There is a traditional ceremony performed in nearly every home in Ethiopia and Eritrea in which the bright red bean of a tree that grows wild in the mountains (called Bunna in Amharic) is roasted over a coal fire, ground with mortar and pestle and then infused in boiling water to produce a thick, dark, [...]

Two Teas from Ethiopia

Posted by Cinnabar on August 6th, 2007

As the country known for the genesis of coffee drinking, enhanced and fostered by a centuries-old ritualized coffee ceremony, Ethiopia is not a country I associate with tea. But the Ethiopians do grow and drink tea and when I was at Tana Market, one of the Ethiopian groceries on Cherry Street in Seattle last week [...]


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