Apres le diner

Sorry, finally get to use my limited French, and it only gets better if you use it. "Apres le diner" means "after dinner".

Wonderful meal; apparently our hotel has some of the best food in town, and Cap has the best food in Haiti. Our colleagues from Port au Prince were very eager to eat, as was I; it was a long day, and I was hungry. The restaurant is in the hotel, but it's open to the elements; not quite 'al fresco', but that's getting to the idea.

Sadly, they were out of shrimp and goat. Dommage; I really like goat. On a recommendation from Lauren, I ordered the Poisson Courser Sel (?), a meaty white fish, not unlike grouper, cooked and served in a bright sauce. The food came with fried plantains (excellent), beans and rice (a favorite of mine, and much better than the bagged kind), and (inexplicably) french fries (I guess they were out of white rice). All together a very satisfying meal.

What made the meal stand out even more was the discussion. It was a little smalltalk, a little shop, and a lot of blue sky thinking. Lakmesh asked me about what it would take to build a relatively simple system to communicate from farmers to city markets (and back) about the availability of food and the price being paid for a specific food at a specific market. He pointed out that this would be easy to monetize, because the centers directing the flow of information would be paid by both ends; the farmers to look for requests and prices, and the market to seek out a seller Good for optimiz...
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Can't keep my eyes open. Ugh. Need to get to bed. More atr