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Menbere Aklilu Named Commencement Speaker at Holy Names University
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Menbere Aklilu (Photo: salutemarinabay.com)
Menbere Aklilu, East Bay community leader, recipient of 2009’s Contra Costa Woman-Owned Business of the Year Award, and owner of Salute e Vita Ristorante in Richmond, Calif., will deliver the keynote address at Holy Names University’s (HNU) 87th commencement on Saturday, May 18.
Born in Ethiopia, Aklilu has demonstrated resilience, determination,...
Washington’s craze for Ethiopian cuisine
Washington D.C. - Ethiopian cuisine in Washington is undergoing a major transformation into the mainstream of food culture, CCTV reports.
People living and working in and around Washington DC have been introduced to this diverse cuisine because the city has the largest Ethiopian community in the country.
The report indicates that Ethiopian restaurants with different Ethiopian foods are penetrating...
Meatless Mondays: Becky and Kedist Tsadik, A Modern Ethiopian Supper Club + A Yellow Split Pea Recipe
Yellow Split Peas (Photo: Alyssa Tembrina Photography)
Los Angeles, California - Becky and Kedist Tsadik’s Ethiopian supper club Bereket began as a class assignment. In her second year of business school at UCLA, Kedist, 29, drew up plans for an upscale Ethiopian restaurant and entered the campus international food festival for empirical research. Her food kiosk ended up winning the best food...
Ethiopian flavors spice up Shabelle Grocery and Restaurant in Minneapolis
Shabelle Grocery (Photo:tcdailyplanet.net)
BY STEPHANIE FOX, GLOBAL GROCERIES
February 11, 2013
Abdur Omer, co-owner of Shabelle, the little Ethiopian grocery store and restaurant on Franklin Avenue, opened his store 13 years ago after moving to Minnesota to be near friends. He first moved to Washington, D.C. from Ethiopia in the 1980s and it was there, just a couple of years before he arrived,...
Ethiopian eatery opens in Allentown
At Mariam’s Ethiopian restaurant co-owner Beleteshachew Mulata sits with several of her culinary creations. (DONNA FISHER /
By Jodi Duckett, The Morning Call
Allentown, PA – The exotic flavors of Ethiopia got an official Allentown welcome Feb. 7. The lively grand opening of Mariam’s Restaurant, with guests Mayor Ed Pawlowski and city officials, community leaders and a crowd of supporters,...
Marcus Samuelsson Cooks in L.A. at Post & Beam
Marcus Samuelsson
Marcus Samuelsson, former “Top Chef Masters” contestant and chef at New York’s Red Rooster in Harlem, will be coming over to the best coast to cook at Govind Armstrong’s Baldwin Hills restaurant, Post & Beam.
Samuelsson’s hopes to bring a taste of Harlem to Baldwin Hills with the meal, which is also meant to commemorate Black History Month. The...
Wat’s New at Petit Valentien
Petit Valentien (Photo: independent.com)
Sekkardis Alemu Serves Ethiopian Weekend Lunch
Serkaddis Alemu, despite having lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, remains Ethiopian at heart. She admits, “If you sit with any Ethiopian for long, don’t be surprised if the discussion ends up about food. To know the food is to know the people.” She’s helping Santa Barbara know both the food and...
Café Colucci Celebrates a New Book Release and Ethiopian Brunch. Both on February 2
The book release and brunch will be featured at Café Colucci at 6427 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland CA 94609 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, with a traditional coffee ceremony and light snacks. The celebration will continue at the African American Museum & Library at 659 14th St Oakland, CA 94612 from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., with an Ancient Ethiopian Cookware Exhibit, light appetizers and Ethiopian Honey Wine.
Oakland,...
Habesha Celebrates the Best of Ethiopian Cuisine
Appetizers presented on the mesobBY JOHN ANDERSON
Friendly newcomers share Ethiopian food and hospitality
BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS,
Habesha Restaurant and Bar is the newest addition to the small number of African restaurants in Austin.
The grand opening party on January 5th attracted 300 people and now the restaurant is rapidly becoming a popular spot to enjoy flavorful Ethiopian food in a warm,...
Zemams Ethiopian Cuisine: an owner’s pursuit of happiness
Zemams Ethiopian Cuisine (Photo: Max Efrein)
By Max Efrein
Amanuel Gebremariam casually paces his restaurant, Zemams Ethiopian Cuisine, taking orders, checking up on customers, and bringing out food. Manager, cook, waiter, busser, he does it all.
“I want to monitor everything,” Gebremariam said.
Gebremariam came to the U.S. as a refugee more than 30 years from from Eritrea, an East African country...
