Ethiopian food

The typical Ethiopian food is wat and
injera. Injera is a flat bread, the grey rolls you see in the picture at the left. It is made by a sour dough process from a typical Ethiopian grain called teff. The wat is a spicy stew which comes in a variety of kinds. Typicalkly, the wat and injera are served in a large basket, as shown. People are gathered around the basket and all eat together. You don't see any utensils because Ethiopians eat with their hands, and you can see us doing just that. Take a piece of the Injera and use it to pick up some wat and eat it. In the picture to the right is a group of us gathered around the basket. To the left is our server with a bowl from which she served the wat that you see. I'm on the right, almost covering up Arleta. The gal with the big smile is Staci, and the smile indicates that she really likes wat, and especially shiro wat, made from chick peas. To her right is Wayne, followed by Kathy and Jose. I hope that from the look on our faces (ok, I am not at all sure about the look on my face) that the food was great.