Food as Medicine: Making Injera with Yergalem Andetsion

Yergalem Andetsion, Asian Health Services

July 24, 2026

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Yergalem Andetsion welcomed our Chinatown elders with a delicious Eritrean meal and stories from her homeland. She shared the history of Eritrea, the stories behind her family's food, and the history of her Eritrean Orthodox church community in San Leandro.

Elders then got to try making injera themselves. Along the way, they found many overlaps and resonances between the histories of Eritrea and China.

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