"“Ghenet is a touchstone of my whole personality. We order this food three times a week. When I first moved to New York, I was like, ‘Ooh, I'll get a job at Ghenet, and then maybe they'll send me home with food.’ I didn't even do anything. I did one shift and then somebody in there was not f*king with me. I followed up the next day. They were like, ‘Oh, we'll be in touch.’ I followed up, no response. I waited a week, like, ‘Hey.’ Also, mind you, in between, I ordered delivery from the restaurant. They'd seen my name multiple times. Then I was like, ‘You know what, this is probably for the best.’ Because when you work in a restaurant and you're around the food too much, you start to get tired of it. I think that was God saving me from hating my favorite food. I did not get that job. They were not messing with me. But I turned my fiancé on to it. I forced his family to try it. It's my favorite food. My go-to order is a veggie combo with shiro wett, and the yedubba wett—the squash—is unreal. Kitfo, which is the raw beef dish—shout out raw beef. I don't eat much beef anymore, but I love that. I also get the aterkik aletcha which is a yellow split pea, and I like to get the collard greens. My fiancé really likes the carrots and cabbage and potatoes. Depending on the day, it'll be a mixture of all those things. And they have gluten free injera. I'm gonna order it tonight.”" - brennan carley
