27 December 05

Teff Luck

We went to Oakland to meet Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton to go to the Baseball as America exhibition at the Oakland Museum only to discover they are in fact closed on Tuesday. (Before doing any more long-distance museum jaunts, do check the website!) We regrouped quickly to fetch up at Cody’s and Moe’s books on Telegraph, and then went for an early dinner of Ethiopian food.

We went to Cafe Colucci near Telegraph and Alcatraz, and having almost no exposure to Ethiopian cuisine, didn’t know what to expect. Thankfully, Ron and Joe served as good guides, and explained what to do with the injera pancakes made of teff grain. It’s not a cuisine for the fastidious, but it makes a very yummy vegetarian meal. Our favorite dish of all was the collard greens (gomen).

Posted by at 11:10 PM in Miscellaneous | Link |
  1. That was fun! Next time maybe we can persuade the restaurant folks to spice up the food to almost-home values.

    Oh—injera is a sourdough bread; I kept meaning to talk about the process. You leave the stuff to ferment before baking, which is where the spongy holes come from.
    — Ron Sullivan    29. December 2005, 22:33    Link
  2. If it’s at Telegraph and Ashby, I think I just had my first encounter with that restaurant a few weeks ago (along with my introduction to the Monday night Starry Plough).

    Hello Pica. Anita from Green Tongues here. Happy New Year, and maybe I will actually sketch/paint in 2006.
    — Anita    2. January 2006, 06:20    Link
  3. I mean, hello Nemenius.

    Can I go back to sleep for another week?
    — Anita    2. January 2006, 06:21    Link

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