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| | Cookbook @ HIM site |
 | | Of all the cuisines of East Africa, the most highly developed and the one least exotic to the Western palate is that of Ethiopia. |
 | | After nearly two thousand years of development, this is a style of cookery that has combined the best principles of the Arabic kitchen with the use of classic African ingredients, such as peanuts, bananas, rice, coconuts, spinach, corn and beans. |
 | | These highlands rise from the torrid plains, abruptly and almost perpendicularly, and the steep escarpment has had a profound influence on the course of Ethiopian history: it has attracted Semitic immigrants from South Arabia, deterred the would-be conqueror, and preserved a civilization of Biblical hue in a cocoon of archaic and antique style. |
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