The Pantry

A bone-strengthening tuber, a drought-proof miracle tree, and a wild nettle worth the sting — the indigenous Ethiopian foods the world is only starting to notice.

It looks like a banana tree and never fruits — yet enset feeds twenty million Ethiopians as qocho, and its starch becomes silky bula porridge.

In the walled city of Harar, beef is fermented into wakalim sausage, breakfast comes as flaky fetira, and coffee meets seri bread — a taste of Ethiopia's most distinctive food city.