Dinner with Tinsae

After immigrating to Australia and settling in the Blue Mountains, Tinsae began popularising Ethiopian culture and cuisine using Ethiopian coffee ceremonies at markets and events. Ethiopia is widely recognised as the birthplace of coffee, and Ethiopians have a particularly fragrant way of roasting the green coffee beans in a clay pot called a djebena. Tinsae's Djebena Coffees business soon extended to cooking classes at the Auburn Community Centre. Her latest initiative is a series of dinners at her own home under the name Dinner with Tinsae.

The meal began with baskets of Injera, rolls of pliable, pancake-like bread with the tasty tang of fermentation. We were encouraged to unroll them on our ...read more