I still remember the first time I ever had Ethiopian food. It was at Mama Desta’s Red Sea restaurant in Chicago, where I took an ex-flame that I was desperately trying to rekindle. I don’t remember ...

The first time I tried making injera, I poisoned my wife. I was cocky in my conviction that I could pull off the tricky Ethiopian flatbread that gets its tangy flavor from slow fermentation, much like ...

A cozy mix of cabbage, potatoes, and carrots simmered in warm spices — this Ethiopian dish is pure comfort in one pot.

Cabbage might not be the star of most dinner tables, but it’s one of those humble ingredients that can surprise you when ...

“Ethiopian Jewish food is just a little bit of everything,” Beejhy Barhany, the founding owner and executive chef of Tsion Cafe, an Ethiopian and Israeli restaurant, told the Journal. “It’s an array ...

Let’s say you’ve gone to war in the mountains. You and your men have a chance for a breather. You’ve found a secluded spot, easily defensible, near water and not far from a few cowherds, from whom you ...

Injera is a popular indigenous Ethiopian dish, prepared from teff, a small round grain that thrives mainly in the higher lands of Ethiopia. It is flatbread with spongy like texture. Injera is a key ...

What’s the Tigray region like? Tigray is very remote with lots of mountains; in some places, there aren’t even any roads. It’s part of a developing nation, so there’s an element of poverty — more than ...

The ouze — a Lebanese dish of spiced, roasted lamb shanks over rice scattered with pine nuts and slivered almonds — served at Flavors From Afar tasted very familiar. I had recently been ordering meals ...