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African Whiskey???

Team BJ will be attempting to make traditional Ethiopian food.  We will be pairing with a honey whiskey, in the place of the more standard Tej (honey wine).  For those of you that haven't had Ethiopian food we thought we might provide a little background.

Ethiopian food typically consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes.  A wat is a thick stew, served on injera, which is a large sourdough flatbread made out of fermented teff flour. The injera is very thin like a crepe but more rubbery than a normal flatbread.  It also has a bubbled texture and a slightly acidic taste from the fermentation.  Utensils are not typically used in Ethiopian restaurants, rather you use pieces of injera to pick up bites of the food piled on top. 

As the injera are normally really large, meals are often shared, and extra injera provided.