I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman
Its fun to pick a cuisine and say Im going to research Ethiopian food, and see what its all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors. – Cat Cora