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Ethiopian · Eritrean · Calgary
Everything the Habesha kitchen needs, on one shelf
Berbere and shiro milled for the way it is actually cooked. Teff by the twenty-pound sack, bagged under our own name. Jebena, finjal, incense and the charcoal to burn it on. If it belongs in the kitchen, it is on 37 Street.
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Every bag, close enough to read
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We photograph the bag, not a stock picture of a bowl of stew. Open any product and you can read what is printed on it — because what is printed on it is the whole answer to “where did this come from”.
- The name, in both scriptsሰላም ቀይ የጤፍ ዱቄት and Red Teff Flour, so you can find it whichever way you think of it.
- Net weight, in both units20 lbs and 9.08 kg, printed bilingually the way Canadian labelling requires.
- A lot numberLOT# 010826 traces the bag back to the milling run it came from.
- Who packed itOur own name and Calgary address on the bag, not a distributor’s.
What we carry
Ten aisles
No prices online — they are set in store
Recently in
Just landed
Where it ends up
In Calgary kitchens
Twenty pounds of teff does not stay twenty pounds of teff for long. It becomes injera on a Sunday, kinche on a school morning, a jebena going round after dinner.
This is who we stock for: the households on this side of the city who cook the way they cooked at home, and the restaurants that feed everyone else.
Say it in Amharic
The names, as they are said at home
Names marked with a dotted underline were read from a pack label and are still being checked by a native reader. The full glossary →
The coffee ceremony
Everything the ceremony needs
Both forms of jebena — the long-necked Ethiopian and the round Eritrean with its woven stand. Green beans to roast in your own pan. Finjal by the dozen or boxed with saucers, gold-rimmed sini, frankincense and myrrh, coconut and quick-light charcoal, and the rekebot to set it all on.
Jebena
Both forms
Coffee
Green, unroasted
Rekebot
Five finishes
Own label
Some of it we mill ourselves
The teff, the millet and several of the cereals are milled and bagged here in Calgary under our own label — VANA Africa Import & Export. Our name, our address and the lot number go on the bag.
That is a claim you can check rather than take on trust: open the red teff and read the panel.
Come in
Where to find us
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- Wholesale
- Pallet and container enquiries →
Before you come
Questions we get asked
Come and see what is on the shelf
Everything on this site is in the shop. Prices are on the shelf edge, and the kettle is usually on.