The Pepper Eater Project

First, the Pepper Eater Project was mentioned in a book about Ethiopian Cuisine in the US by Professor Harry Kloman, titled Mesob Across America. Here’s an excerpt:

But twice in the past few years, teams of engineers in a program at Stanford have developed affordable products that make the lives of Ethiopians -and especially the women who cook the family meal -much easier. It happened at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the “d-school”) in a course called Design for Extreme Affordability. In 2008, a team of graduate students discovered that a piece of metal could lengthen the longevity and durability of the most important item in an Ethiopian woman’s cooking repertoire. And a year later, another team took some of the tears out of making Ethiopian spices.

The Pepper Eater was also featured in the Ethiopian magazine, Addis Life. The article highlights the needfinding and user testing work by our team to develop the project.