Baro restaurant in Winnipeg bridges cultural divides through Ethiopian-Eritrean cuisine
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The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
Baro, an Ethiopian-Eritrean restaurant in Winnipeg run by chef Tammy Fekadu, uses food and cultural heritage to bridge communities. Named after the Baro River in Ethiopia, the restaurant emphasizes the connective power of shared culinary traditions, highlighting how cuisine can transcend cultural and political divides. The article explores the restaurant's role in fostering understanding and unity through its hyphenated Ethiopian-Eritrean identity.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledRiverine origins matter at Baro, an eatery just west of the Health Sciences Centre on Notre Dame Avenue, but don't overlook the connective power of the hyphen on the street-facing sign at chef Tammy Fekadu's Ethiopian-Eritrean cuisine.
A waterway that rolls for more than 300 kilometres in the Ethiopian highlands, serving as a major cultural and economic thoroughfare for the nearby Gambella region as well as the South Sudanese state to the west, the Baro River is a reminder of communal reliance on precious natural resources, says Fekadu's eldest daughter, Samra
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