{"id":203,"date":"2006-04-15T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-04-15T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T13:53:03","slug":"ethiopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/ethiopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/ethiopian\/\">Ethiopian<\/a> food spreads out a variety of curries on a pancake-like bread called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/cooking\/bread\/recipe-injera.html\">Injera<\/a>.  You then eat it with your fingers.  But this is no mere novelty, it is an excellent cuisine.  My favorite dish is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kitfo\">Kitfo<\/a>, raw beef doused with chilies and a kind of dry cottage cheese.  And don&#8217;t forget the potato salad.<br \/>\nWashington is very strong in the area of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/ethiopian\/\">Ethiopian food<\/a>, so most of the places are recommended.  The less refined places tend to have spicier food, and I prefer those to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/2006\/04\/meskerem.php\">Meskerem<\/a>; you can pretty much pick one randomly.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/2006\/04\/meskerem.php\">Meskerem<\/a> is where most of us started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/17\/AR2005051700677.html\">Washington&#8217;s Little Ethiopia: A New Cluster of Restaurants Brings Exotic (Yet Inexpensive) Appeal to Ninth and U Streets<\/a>,&#8221; by Walter Nicholls, The Washington Post, May 18, 2005\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalcommunitynews.com\/publications\/hillrag\/2005_june\/80-83-RAG-0605.pdf\">Little Ethiopia Spices Up DC&#8217;S Culinary Scene<\/a>,&#8221; by Alex MacLennan, Hill Rag, June, 2005 (4-page pdf)\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/destinations\/2005-10-17-little-ethiopia_x.htm?csp=34\">Washington: Nation&#8217;s largest Ethiopian community carves niche<\/a>,&#8221; by Brian Westley, USA Today, October 17, 2005<\/ul>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian food spreads out a variety of curries on a pancake-like bread called Injera. You then eat it with your fingers. But this is no mere novelty, it is an excellent cuisine. My favorite dish is the Kitfo, raw beef &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/ethiopian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}