Ethiopian Jews forced to give up teff

June 11, 2008 D. H. McKee

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This is terrible. I love teff. I wonder what it’ll mean for getting it here in North America.
Israel’s Ethiopians Forced to Give Up Traditional Bread

Tens of thousands of the expatriates are being forced to abandon their traditional diets because of the skyrocketing cost of teff grain.
Teff, a nutritious and hardy cereal domesticated in Ethiopia thousands of years ago, is the primary ingredient in injera, a round flatbread that accompanies most Ethiopian meals.
A drastic shortage has caused the price of teff to jump by some 300 percent over the past year.

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