Aurora’s Ethiopian community celebrates “culture of sharing”

Taste of EthiopiaAurora, Colorado — A thousand pancakes weren’t nearly enough, not for the hundreds of people who waited in a long, winding line during the opening two hours of the first Taste of Ethiopia Grand Festival Sunday in Aurora.

“We’re going to have to order more,” said an ebullient chief cook Sophia Belew of the whole wheat flatbread Ethiopians call injera, which is both bread and utensil to gobble gastric delights such as gomen and wot.

Belew oversaw 14 people from the festival’s native land who cooked up a pile of food Saturday and served it Sunday to thousands of people of several races and cultural backgrounds.Read more