{"id":10949,"date":"2019-09-04T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:55:01","slug":"youd-be-remiss-to-not-try-ethiopian-food-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10949","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019d Be Remiss to Not Try Ethiopian Food in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019re looking for great Ethiopian food, D.C. is the spot. Amazingly, the city is home to the largest Ethiopian community outside of Africa.<\/p>\n

The history of the Ethiopian food scene here is a one-two wave in the 1980s\u2014famine and war, says Kate Gibbs with Destination D.C., the official destination marketing organization of our nation\u2019s capital. Ethiopians began to relocate to the D.C. area in 1974, first into the Adams Morgan neighborhood, and eventually shifting in the 1980s to the Shaw neighborhood and historic U Street which today is known as Little Ethiopia\u2014and where you\u2019ll find the largest concentration of restaurants and markets. Silver Spring, Md. and Alexandria, Va. have also seen a rise in Ethiopian population in recent years.<\/p>\n

One of the beauties of the Ethiopian food scene in D.C. is that it is \u201cstill delightfully mom and pop,\u201d says Gibbs. Although, that isn\u2019t to say the neighborhood hasn\u2019t changed through the years\u2014it is no longer exclusively Ethiopian coffee shops and restaurants that you\u2019ll find here.<\/p>\n

One spicy way to learn all about the history of D.C.\u2019s Ethiopian food scene, as well as sample some of the most popular Ethiopian dishes, is to take the walking food tour of Little Ethiopia conducted by D.C. Food Tours. You\u2019ll learn a bit about the history of Ethiopians in D.C., as well as experience traditional Ethiopian cuisine. … READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for great Ethiopian food, D.C. is the spot. Amazingly, the city is home to the largest Ethiopian community outside of Africa. The history of the Ethiopian food scene here is a one-two wave in the 1980s\u2014famine and…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10950,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}