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Ingredients: Honey

As much of Ethiopia has a temperate climate throughout the year, there are plants in flower most of the time and honey is regularly available. Ethiopians take advantage of this not only by collecting wild honey, but by setting up artificial hives in convenient locations in the hope of attracting wild bees to use them and making honey collection for human use easier.

Natural honeycombs in a gap is the stones of the wall in a castle in Gondar, north of Lake Tana, some ten metres above the ground.

A wicker artificial hive placed in a grove of acacia trees near Goba in the Bale highlands.

Honey can be found on sale all over Ethiopia. It is usually sold in plastic pots, or plastic buckets. Mostly, it seemed to be crystalline honey. The honey we tried was very flavoursome. African acacia seems to produce especially delicious honey.