A friend who decided to cook for a group of people did not have NiTr Kibe, so she decided to cook with regular butter. I must say it lacked depth compared to what I am used to. Ethiopian food is complicated to start from scratch. In a sense, all ethnic food is complicated. For Indian [...]
Published by March 30th, 2006 in Food.Tag Archive for 'ethiopia'
Especially for our Ethiopia artists! Sources told me that Zeritu was paid a flat rate of 13,000$ for distribution rights in North America and Europe of her new album. That was big for someone new but small in comparison to what possible profits it would have made if all copies of her CD’s were to [...]
Published by March 28th, 2006 in Music.Today I heard Tewodros Tadesse sing live. The song I’ve heard before, its one of my favorite songs. There are a few songs that I classify as memory songs. One is ‘Abeba yehoye?Lem Lem,’ the Meskerem song. This past Ethiopian New Years I saw Neway Debeb doing his version with Chachi Taddesse at the New [...]
Donkey is English is also known as Ass. When people say "…being and an ass," they are referring to a Donkey. In Ethiopia they have the same saying; "Ante Aheya." Ok, I checked this really; the word "Donkey" came to existence because they didn't want people to confuse Ass with Arse; Arse is butt for [...]
Published by March 23rd, 2006 in Social.Or My great grandmother's older brother, he was a talented 19th /20th century painter sculpture and illustrator. I’m pretty sure most of you haven’t heard of him but I’m sure some of you have seen his work. He specialized in the church paintings and sculptures. Among the ones he worked on, is Kidist Mariam Bete [...]
Published by March 21st, 2006 in History.
