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Black Restaurant Week – Aug 14-21

August 10, 2016

Madison Black Chamber of Commerce is holding Madison’s first Black Restaurant Week. If you enjoy delicious home-cooked food, you still have time to get out to Madison’s first-ever “Black Restaurant Week” which has been going on this week and will continue through Sunday, Aug. 21. Organized by the Madison Black Chamber of Commerce, Black Restaurant Week features 15 restaurants, food carts, and catering companies owned by African-Americans throughout the city. Black Restaurant Week patrons can enjoy dining at delicious restaurants,…

Wisconsin State Journal: Backyard patio is the place to be.

June 9, 2016

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Madison.com / Wisconsin State Journal Review by Samara Kalk, June 9, 2016 The lacquered wooden bar is particularly striking, but the spacious backyard dining area is the place to be at this time of year. Hard as it was to hold off, I waited a few months after Buraka’s well-documented move to try the new incarnation of this treasured East African restaurant. That’s because I have a friend, a UW-Madison graduate, who visits from Florida each spring, and while in…

Isthmus: Buraka’s Back

May 6, 2016

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Isthmus Review by Amelia Cook Fontella April 21, 2016 Spicy stews and more are just as good at the new Willy Street location If the wind is blowing the right way down Willy Street, you might catch the intoxicating scent of spice-rich Ethiopian food drifting from Buraka. First a food cart and then a beloved State Street restaurant, Buraka has been a Madison staple since the early 1990s. After being displaced in 2013 for construction of the Hub apartment complex,…

Ethiopia: Meet the Dibabas, The Fastest Family on the Planet

April 22, 2016

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Ethiopia is a running-mad country—but it’s never seen anything like the Dibabas. Chloe Malle heads to Addis Ababa to meet the fastest family on the planet. The only sound at the top of the Entoto Mountains is the thwack of a cowherd’s staff against the tree trunks as he leads his small herd of oxen home. I am doing my best to keep pace with Tirunesh Dibaba, 30, and her younger sister, Genzebe, 25, two wisplike Ethiopians with wide smiles…

Bonga: Brewing up in Ethiopia’s epicenter of coffee

April 13, 2016

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Birthplace of coffee Bonga in Ethopia is claimed as the birthplace of Aribica coffee. Despite the drink’s success. the region largely remains a backwater, although Ethiopia’s tourism chiefs are now hoping to bring in more visitors. (CNN) Bonga is a name rarely encountered when visiting Ethiopia, if at all. But it deserves to be better known: it’s said to be the very birthplace of Arabica coffee. Despite its caffeinated claim, the multi-billion dollar global industry that has grown up around…

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Black Restaurant Week – Aug 14-21

Wisconsin State Journal: Backyard patio is the place to be.

Isthmus: Buraka’s Back

Ethiopia: Meet the Dibabas, The Fastest Family on the Planet

Bonga: Brewing up in Ethiopia’s epicenter of coffee