Around Lalibela

The coffee making ceremony is an integral part of rural Ethiopian life although its only about 100 years old.  Wumit, if I remember her name correctly, (pictured below) invites her friends round every day for coffee in between working as waitress, running a shop, griding grain for a profit and attending night school to complete her education. She lives in this room (about a quater of which is shown) with her two pre-school children, two of her brothers and a neice. Injira is the Ethiopian staple - made from fermented tef (a grain) it is often referred to as carpet underlay.  It kind of grows on you but I won't be searching out the recipe now I've got home.