1965... Long before the movie with Robin Williams, this was "Good Morning Ethiopia," at KANU Radio & TV, Eritrea (Ethiopia then), part of the US Armed Forces Radio & Television Service (AFRTS).

Preparations for a wedding reception in Asmara, under canvas suspended between two houses. The bare ground is covered with soft, aromatic palm branches and hay. The air was thick with firey-hot red zigney stew bubbling in three kettles. Tree sap incense wafted sandalwood and honeysuckle scent, and the deep dark aromas from the barrels in the center... filled with fermented home-brews called soowah (primarily teff and other grains), and tej (primarily honey). More than four decades have passed, and I can still smell Asmara, and smile.