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Bonjour, Mes Amis! Welcome to My Kitchen!

By Chef François Kwaku-Dongo on October 5, 2011

Let me share a bit about my own culinary journey. I was raised in West Africa’s tropical Côte d’Ivoire which used to be called The Ivory Coast and was a former French colony. I didn’t see much ivory when I was growing up, but I did work on my grandmother’s cocoa farm.

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A Visit to South Africa

By Chef François Kwaku-Dongo on June 5, 2011

Steve and I had the chance to travel to South Africa at the invitation of a wonderful boutique spa hotel in greater Johannesburg in the town of Sandton.  For me, it was a trip filled with all sorts of conflicting emotions — I had come of age in Côte d’Ivoire during the time of apartheid [...]

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