I also once had an Ethiopian meal, served at a restaurant in Washington D.C. My sister was the lawyer for the restaurant and she was invited by the owner to bring her family. We went and it was very interesting. The food was served without utensils as Matt said. It was served with a bread of some kind (The Frugal Gourmet has a recipe for it made in an electric skillet). Also a few salads and a few dishes on a round pizza pan, sort of. I was not a chile-head at the time and don't remember much about the food itself except for the Berbere paste that was used on it. That was quite spicy as I remember. I have several ethiopian recipes somewhere - I know there is a whole section in the Frugal Gourmet On Our Immigrant Ancestors and also in one of the Moosewood Cookbooks - the one on Sundays. The food is very interesting and very spicy. The bread is ripped into pieces and it is used to grab the food. RisaG --- "T. Matthew Evans" <matt.evans@ce.gatech.edu> wrote: > A few years back, while in San Francisco, my wife > and I ate at an Ethiopian > restaurant that had one some sort of "Best in the > Bay Area" award for a few > years running. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com