It’s often said in the Mahaffy family that a precondition for marrying into the clan is love for Eritrean food. Fortunately, that’s true for me, even though I grew up on a Minnesota farm where the diet leaned heavily toward bland.
I first met the Mahaffys through my older brother Lloyd, who lived with Paul, Samuel and Peter (in a student house with a reputation for independent thinking) while attending college in Iowa. Fast for...