{"id":273026,"date":"2019-04-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=d4e92af7a31b4cef1602dd9df74bbab7"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:19","slug":"ethiopian-easter-bread-meera-sodhas-vegan-defo-dabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273026","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Easter bread: Meera Sodha\u2019s vegan defo dabo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food writer <strong>Meera Sodha<\/strong> published a Guardian vegan take on Ethiopian Easter bread\u2014defo dabo\u2014with fennel and orange, meant to be shared rather than eaten as a sugary cake.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-220037\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bread-shortage-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=689%2C461&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian Easter bread: Meera Sodha\u2019s vegan defo dabo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recipes like this travel diaspora kitchens and introduce Ethiopian Orthodox feast culture to readers who know Ethiopia mainly through headlines. Bread, fasting calendars, and holiday tables are part of how communities mark time.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a culture piece in the archive is deliberate: Mereja\u2019s brief is not politics-only. Foodways are research and identity material for Horn audiences and for anyone documenting Ethiopian culinary life beyond restaurant stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2019\/apr\/13\/meera-sodhas-vegan-recipe-for-ethiopian-easter-bread\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Sodha\u2019s vegan recipe for Ethiopian Easter bread&nbsp;&nbsp;The GuardianDefo dabo is the traditional fennel and orange bread, neither too sweet nor too savoury, to share with friends and family at this time of year. Meera Sodha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":220037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bread-shortage-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=689%2C461&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-191E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600542,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273026\/revisions\/600542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}