I always thought that Prester John's mythical land was around or on the other side of India.
I guess that's why I couldn't find it when I lead that crusade to save it... Cheers, Wrongway Peachfuzz "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Bob W <[email protected]> Sent: August 24, 2012 8/24/12 To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: PESO: Tasty Ethiopian dinner > 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.
