Hi Tim, I've already read it, plus all his other books! He is one of the best travel writers around.
Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tim Bray > Sent: 25 August 2012 06:08 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: Tasty Ethiopian dinner > > Bob, you'd probably love the book that I was writing about where I used > the food picture as illustration. It's called The Chains of Heaven, > about a guy who takes a long walk through the Ethiopian back-country. > Anyone who likes good travel writing would like it, or just a tour of a > profoundly weird and stimulating place. > > On Amazon: http://goo.gl/4AOzO > > -T > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > >> Of Tim Bray > >> > >> For anyone who hasn't been to a good Ethiopian restaurant, I totally > >> recommend it; the food comes on a big share-plate covered with a > >> bread platter. Warning: Some dishes are severely spicy: > >> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/08/24/- > >> big/IMG_0195.jpg.html > >> > > > > Ethiopian food is what brought me on to this list, way back when. At > > the place where I was working we had a monthly dining club, and chose > > a different nationality of food each month. When it was something > > well-known and popular we'd get 12-15 people turning up. > > > > One month we decided on Ethiopian, and only 3 of us turned up, but > the > > food was utterly delicious and the whole experience was completely > out > > of this world. I'd been thinking about Ethiopia for some time in any > > case, because I found it hard to reconcile the images of famine and > > war with the stories of an ancient culture, Prester John and so on. > > The food just deepened my intrigue, so I booked a month's holiday and > went travelling there in 1996. > > > > It's a completely wonderful country, and the people are very friendly > > and interesting. The food is generally better over here though than > it > > is/was in the countryside outside Addis Ababa, except for the injera. > > Real injera in Ethiopia is really unlike the stuff we get over here, > > even though some of the restaurants do fly it in fresh ever day. > > > > Anyway, I had some camera problems (MX and Super-A) while I was > there, > > so I found this group and subscribed so that I could ask for advice. > I > > ended up buying 3 LXes, which I took to Ethiopia on my second trip > > there. Had problems with those cameras too, so all in the all the > PDML > > was pretty useless and very expensive, but there were some good flame > wars. > > > > On that second trip I went back to Lalibela where I was told that a > > new restaurant had opened - a French restaurant. This of course > > fascinated me, so I went one evening. It was exactly the same as > every > > other restaurant in Ethiopia, so I asked what was French about it. > > They told me it was because the woman who owned it had once spent a > week in Paris. > > > > The 'big share plate' is called a mesob. The 'bread' is injera. They > > do this thing called gursha if they like you - they break off a bit > of > > injera, scoop up some of the stew and feed it to you into your mouth. > > It sounds strange but it's a very nice friendly custom. > > > > B > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
