by phil | Jun 19, 2012 | Biz, Cote D'Ivoire
Restaurant and catering biz? If you want to get caught up, see these posts: 1. What it’s like to Start a Restaurant and Catering Business in Abidjan 2. Early Successes and Failures of Running a Business in Abidjan 3. Our Fight for Power and a Look at the Informal...
by phil | Jun 14, 2012 | Europe
It’s been a long time since I’ve been bewildered and alone in an unfamiliar place. I was able to find this exhilarating brand of confusion in Lisbon. I’m really good at walking around like an idiot, and being clueless is more fun than you think. When...
by phil | Jun 7, 2012 | Stories
In Timbuktu with a piece of camel cheese in my mouth “Home” is difficult for me to define. For the moment, I consider “home” to be places where people know my name. Thinking about that today, I realized that not only do I have more than one...
by phil | May 24, 2012 | Biz, Cote D'Ivoire
If you come to our restaurant in the Allocodrome of the Toits Rouges quarter in the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, you can order this dish. Best wait a couple of weeks, though, as kedjenou is an evening dish and right now we are strictly a...
by phil | May 17, 2012 | Europe
It’s going to be a couple months before I drink a Drogba – the local name of the near-liter-sized Bock Ivorian beer. I can salivate over the photo in the mean time. I leave tonight for Lisbon. A lot of people — Malian friends in particular —...
