ethiopian food.....and you!

GoldDustWoman

GoldDustWoman

difficult but worth it
#1
#1
Come join the Third Quasi-Monthly Improvisors Eat Ethiopian Food Day!

Where? Meskerem on West 47th Street between 9th and 10th (Reasonably priced, veggie-friendly, likely near your rehearsal space)

When? Sunday, September 19th at 5.00 PM

Why? Because we like you, and we like doro wat, and we like to eat without forks.

I'm In...jera! Are you?

Yeah all the requisite Ethiopian food jokes have been made. The 80s are over. Now sit your asses down and pass the extra bread.
 
Erin

Erin

Belle of Kilronan
#2
#2
What does Ethiopian food taste like?

Also, in his epic poetry, Homer spoke of the Ethiopians as the race best favored by the gods. So when Odyseus makes his getaway from Kalypso's island, he escapes while Poisedan is dining with the Ethiopians. BOOYAH!
 
G

goldfish boy

Otium cum dignitate
#3
#3
It's a variety of stews...some meat, some vegetable, some pureed legumes. Some spicy, some mild. Often tangy. Some of the vegetable items are bland, but not many. The bread certainly is tangy--more sour than sourdough. It's flatbread, but soft and spongy, and it's the main component of the meal. It's hard to describe it really, so just join us and try it.
 
GoldDustWoman

GoldDustWoman

difficult but worth it
#4
#4
Other cool stuff

- There's a honey wine available that's sometimes flavored with blackberries depending on where you go. It's sweet and awesome.

- No forks, no forks, no forks. Hands only. You break off a piece of the flatbread (more like a pancake, really) and use it to grab a handful of each dish.

- Everything is communal and shared. Good times!
 
S

Something WItty

New Member
#6
#6
GoldDustWoman said:
- There's a honey wine available that's sometimes flavored with blackberries depending on where you go. It's sweet and awesome.

- No forks, no forks, no forks. Hands only. You break off a piece of the flatbread (more like a pancake, really) and use it to grab a handful of each dish.

- Everything is communal and shared. Good times!
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Don't forget the coffee - another unique ethiopian experience.
(well, not coffee, but ethiopian coffee)
 
Erin

Erin

Belle of Kilronan
#9
#9
Well someone is going to have to walk me through this, telling me which foods are delicious, and which foods are spicy and thus off-limits for my delicate palate.
 
Mo Nose

Mo Nose

Paradox in a pantsuit
#10
#10
Maybe I'll walk by on and say hola or maybe I won't because I'm afraid of you all.

I just don't know yet.

What would the Ethiopians do?
 
Mr. Kwako

Mr. Kwako

Kerfuffling!
#11
#11
For God's sake, do not sit down and start eating the bread like it's bread! That stuff expands in your stomach, which you don't notice until after you've eaten way too much of it and you're stomach explodes all over the sidewalk like pigeons used to do when people threw rice at newly married couples!
 
GoldDustWoman

GoldDustWoman

difficult but worth it
#15
#15
The weather is looking up!

Thus, I hope to have bags of scripts I'll never read and T-shirts from closed shows from the Broadway Flea Market right up the street, too! (if you're really lucky I'll have goody bags from the Wheel of Divas and I'll give you lots of my spare loot!)

Hope to see you Sunday!

Don't be afraid to ask for extra injera!

:love:
 
zohar

zohar

Artful Dodger
#18
#18
I will partake. Looks like I'll also have an extra ticket or two for the Comedy Central taping of Patton Oswalt's 1 hour special that starts at 8pm that I will be happy to share with fellow diners.
 
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Diana

New Member
#19
#19
I will come, but late (5:30 at the earliest)... don't wait for me!

(oops... didn't get to Times Square till 6:30, figured folks had split by then, so got myself 2 kebabs... sorry. My bad for trying to cram so much into one day. next time!)
 
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