Part 2

Draft 2

Ethiopian foods

Tucker

10/19/09

 

      Hi my name is Tucker and I’m going to tell you a little bit about Ethiopian foods. Just in case you were wondering where Ethiopia is, it is on the far eastern side of Africa.  Ethiopians have food that is sometimes spicy, they first invented coffee, and has an interesting culture.

 

      Ethiopia uses a specific ingredient to make their food spicy and lumpy.  They use a Teff grain and to make a bread called Injera.  They dry up jalepnoa peppers and crumple them into a powder and sprinkle it over their food.  That is how they make their food spicy.

 

      This is the story of out Ethiopians invented coffee.  One day a farmer went out to feed his goats and realized they were really dull.  He made their pasture larger and next to a bush.  That night he went to give them their dinner then he realized that the goats, instead of being dull, were hyper!  He thought they were just excited to get their dinner.  The next morning he went out to give them their breakfast and they were still hyper.  The farmer went out into the pasture and looked at the bush.  He realized that there were a lot of goat feces and he saw a little beans in the feces.  He took a dozen berries from the bush, and took them to his house to make a stew.  When he woke up the next morning, he realized he was really hyper too!  He said to himself, “I have made a great discovery!”  He realized that he had discovered a bean that helps people get up in the morning.  Later on, the beans became famous and got turned into coffee instead of stew.

 

 

The last thing I am going tell you about Ethiopia is about their culture.  The Ethiopians always eat with their right hand because it’s a tradition and the law.  They have over 70 languages. They also are not colonized like we are.  Last but not least, they have over 70 different alphabets!

 

Thank you for reading my information on Ethipoia and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it.  The last thing I am going to say is that keep your eyes peeled because you might come across a man from Ethiopia named Johnathon.  He was the one that made this essay possible!