Traditional Foods- Afar African Culture
-Fatty Lamb chops
-Boerewors (farmer sausage)
-Mashed greenbeans and potatoes
-usually sprinkled with sugar
-Crisp pork belly
-Ginger Caramel
-Pickled cabbage
-Sweet potato sandwiches
-Home baked bread
-Lamb curry
-Cooked goat and chicken
Cool Facts
History & Location
General Ingredients
Afar culture is known in the Danakil region
Afar African Culture is practiced in many places
-Djibouti
-Eritrea
-Ethiopia
-Somalia
-Qat allegedly enhances concentration, delays sleep, and mutes the appetie
-Reuben Riffel
- 3 restaurants
- All south african food
- "making the king of food i recogmize from my own childhood, only better!"
-Afar raise goats, sheep, and cattle in the desert
-Afar eat only with their right hands when eating injera
-Church has numberous fasting times
- Wednesdays
- Fridays
- Lenten season
Becuase of Lenten season, Afar cultures have many vegan dishes
-Coffee ceremony after every meal
-Speical tibs is served to show great respect to someone
- special because it's hot and has veg.
-Goorsha is an act of friendship
- a person uses their right hand to strip off a peice of injera
- then roll it in the wat or kitfo
- then put the roll into a friends mouth
- the larger the piece the stronger the friendship
- Dairy Products
- Meat from herbs
- Grain dishes
- Game meat
- Mountain herbs
- Sea food
- Veg.
-pumpkin
-butternut squash
-potatoes
-carrots
-cabages
-onions
-tomatoes
- Citrus fruit
- mangoes, pineapples, watermelons
- Cooking Oils
-sesame
-safflower
-nug (noog/ niger seed)
History:
- Created by France- late 19th century
- 1977- became independant of France
Qat:
- Light narcotic leaf
- Used in religious services
Assets
details
Wat:
- Thick stew
- Served ontop injera
Injera:
- Large, sourdough
- 50cm long
- made from fermented teff flour
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Important
Details
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Tibs:
-meat or veg. sauteed
-served normal or special
Kitfo:
-raw groud beef
-marinated in mitmita (very spicy chili powder)
Gored gored:
-similar to kitfo, but made with cubed beef
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Interesting
Breakfast:
-shredded injera with spices
-spicy mixture of tripe, liver, beef, peppers, and injera
-large, fried pancake
-made with flour
-often eated with a layer of egg and honey
-pankcake like
-covered with spices
-eaten with a spoon
Typical Snacks:
- Daboo killo (local grains)
- Pasta
- Kolo
-roasted barley snack food
-served in a paper cone
Beverages:
-potent honey wine
-home-brewed beer
-bottled, carbinated mineral water
-barley and oat-flour based drink
-cooked with water, sugar, and kibe (butter)
-egg-nnog substance
- Tej and Tella are served in bars!
- The bars are called 'buna bets'
- Ambo comes from the town Ambo
- Atmet is often given to women who are nursing
Table Tradition
Mesob:
-table where food is served
-woven from straw
-has a lid, stays on till mealtime
-beofre eaing, mesob is hand washed
-when food is ready, lid is taken off
-food is placed in sunken top
-after eating, mesob is hand washed
Traditional Dishes