{"id":237,"date":"2013-06-26T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-06-24T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:21:59","slug":"where-to-eat-in-ouaggadougou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/where-to-eat-in-ouaggadougou\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Eat in Ouaggadougou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main reasons to travel is to eat. If you ask me about the time I visited the amazing rebuilt medieval city of Carcassonne, destroyed by a French crusades against the Cathar heretics in the early thirteenth century, I will tell you about the Vietnamese restaurant where I could not &#8211; not &#8211; get the waiter to bring the check. I can tell you about why you should not eat the sausage sandwich at a particular British motorway cafe (because it&#8217;s disgusting) and why you should not eat the <em>cuy<\/em> in the Andes (because guinea pigs are cute).<\/p>\n<p>The Travel Channel features almost no shows about travel that aren&#8217;t really about eating.<\/p>\n<p>Your standard guidebook will suggest some places to eat, along with where to stay and what to see. But if you are going to a big city, that list of six restaurants (two cheap, two medium-priced, two expensive) isn&#8217;t enough. You need a real foodie guide. Try Zagat, whose restaurant guides also feature maps, city info and reviews from recent diners.<\/p>\n<p>I could give you Zagat&#8217;s guide to new Jersey, but let&#8217;s go to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.zagat.com\/collections\/restaurant-guides\/products\/paris-restaurants-u-s-edition-2012-13\">Paris<\/a><\/span> instead. The driving is about the same, but the food is better.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t know where to eat in Ouaggadougou. I have never vacationed in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main reasons to travel is to eat. If you ask me about the time I visited the amazing rebuilt medieval city of Carcassonne, destroyed by a French crusades against the Cathar heretics in the early thirteenth century, I will tell you about the Vietnamese restaurant where I could not &#8211; not &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/where-to-eat-in-ouaggadougou\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where to Eat in Ouaggadougou&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}