INGLEWOOD, Calif. — With a swift flick of the wrist, Gennet Wondimu, owner of Ye Geny Injera & Mini Market in Inglewood, California, slipped a woven mat, called a sefed, under a freshly prepared ...

The first time I tried making injera, I poisoned my wife. I was cocky in my conviction that I could pull off the tricky Ethiopian flatbread that gets its tangy flavor from slow fermentation, much like ...

“Don’t call it bread; don’t call it crȇpes: Injera is injera,” says Serkaddis Alemu of the ancient Ethiopian staple. For more than a decade, Alemu has served her spicy, savory Ethiopian lunch to Santa ...

Africa’s culinary heritage is as vast and varied as the continent itself, offering a diverse mix of flavors, textures, and traditions shaped by centuries of trade, migration, and cultural exchange.

Misrak Gebrehiwot communicates with her husband, chef Takehiko Inoue, in fragments of Japanese, Amharic, and English. It’s a fusion language the two began to create 15 years ago, when they met working ...