We're stuck in Dakar's airport, waiting for our delayed flight to Freetown, and thought we'd use the opportunity to quickly share the Q&A we recently did for journalist Cyrus Farivar's blog. The task proved harder than we'd thought: After a wasted $4 and half-hour of struggle with the French keyboards in the main lounge downstairs, we realized that our business-class seats--the last two seats available on this flight when we purchased them last week--entitled us to the "Prestige" lounge upstairs, where free wireless internet, food, and drinks await. Prestigious indeed!

So here we are in the lap of luxury, with A/C, cushy chairs, our iPad hooked up, and all the apples and peanuts, local juices, and cold beers we'd ever want. All we need now is our plane to touch down in Dakar and pick us up. Which may or may not happen today. As they say in Senegal: Inshallah!

Read the Eat Your World interview here.

We are pleased to announce that Eat Your World was featured today in The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal blog.

What a great way to kick off 2012! The response has already been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and we’re thrilled our “ambitious,” “world-roaming” “work in progress” website about “regional foods that visitors shouldn’t miss” is getting such recognition just a few weeks out of the beta-mode gate. (Apologies to Zagat!)

Also glad we managed to post this smoked fish entry before too many New Yorkers came looking for it.

A few hours after the NYT piece, Lifehacker wrote about us, which really pushed our traffic through the roof—and then crashed us for about 20 minutes. We took the opportunity to upgrade our servers, as we can only hope this happens again. 

Huge thanks to all you early adopters out there who have supported us through this adventure. Now to try to focus on finishing up our Prague section…