Meet Fekere Gebre-Mariam. The restaurateur is “one thing of a Godfather” of Los Angeles’ Little Ethiopia, because the Los Angeles Occasions deemed him almost 30 years in the past.
The Little Ethiopia group incorporates a cluster of roughly a dozen Ethiopian-owned companies on Fairfax Avenue in L.A.’s central area. Gebre-Mariam’s restaurant, Rosalind’s Ethiopian Delicacies, was the primary within the once-Jewish space. Over the past three a long time, he’s helped different Ethiopian entrepreneurs open their doorways on the favored Los Angeles road.
On this episode of theGrio’s digital sequence “A Style of Chocolate,” we go inside Rosalind’s to learn the way Gebre-Mariam’s crew brings genuine Ethiopian meals to Los Angeles, how he impressed the creation of Little Ethiopia, and the correct method to eat from the eatery’s well-known “Emperor” plate, which incorporates samples of 12 traditional Ethiopian dishes.
In theGrio’s digital sequence “A Style of Chocolate,” host Shernay Williams takes viewers on a digital street journey to go to among the finest Black-owned meals companies within the U.S. In our first season, we sampled meals within the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., traditionally often called “the Chocolate Metropolis.” This season, we’re exploring Los Angeles to introduce you to 4 well-liked eating places it’s best to know. Every episode profiles a Black enterprise proprietor’s entrepreneurial journey and takes viewers into the kitchen as we style their signature dishes.
Be taught extra about Rosalind’s, Fekere Gebre-Mariam, and “A Style of Chocolate” within the video above.
Shernay Williams is a 3x entrepreneur with over a decade of expertise as a broadcast, print, and digital journalist. She’s obsessed with utilizing video to cowl entrepreneurship and enterprise improvement inside Black, feminine, and different historically under-resourced communities.
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