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Food, rooms, coffee and people.

Mixed platter
Injera takes shape on the mitad.Photo: PhoTom - ፎቶም Photography / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The mesob is both table and centrepiece.Photo: Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Eating together means eating from one platter.Photo: Joannekinginaddis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The jebena - heart of the coffee ceremony.Photo: Rod Waddington / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Evening light.Photo: PattayaPatrol / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mixed platter
No fire, no injera.Photo: Natnael Tadele / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
For a bigger table, we simply lay out more.Photo: Alberto Lemos / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Every mesob is woven by hand.Photo: Imagesdumonde / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The jebena goes straight onto the embers.Photo: Jean Rebiffé / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Berbere gives the kitchen its colour.Photo: Badagnani / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Eaten by hand, from one platter.Photo: Rod Waddington / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo: Rod Waddington / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
First roast, then grind, then brew.Photo: ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo: surlygirl / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Berbere begins long before the kitchen.Photo: Gyrofrog / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
One table, one platter.Photo: Kurt Kaiser / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
The baskets keep the injera warm and soft.Photo: Rod Waddington / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Poured from a height, in one movement.Photo: Scanfers / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vegetarian mixed platter
Three rounds: abol, tona, baraka.Photo: Jean Rebiffé / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Doro Wot
Doro Wot Alicha
Key Tibs
Nech Tibs
Zilzil Tibs
Geba Weta
Yetibs Firfir
Kitfo
Gored Gored
Kurt
Alicha
Alicha Dinich Wot
Red lentils
Yellow lentils
Shiro Wot
Gomen
Injera
Ambasha
Kategna
Sambusa
Mixed salad

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