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The New Ethiopian Scene
I stopped talking mid-sentence. I was sitting at year-old Erta Ale in St. Paul’s Lowertown, and the server approached with a tray sizzling and popping in a cloud of smoke—fireworks? She paused to let me consider her tray, and as she did, a cloud of smoke …