When I finally got to my gate, I found that my flight had just left, but an angel in the (very successful) guise of a Northwest Airlines ticketing agent got me a seat on a flight leaving for Minneapolis in twenty minutes, connecting to La Guardia half an hour later and reaching New York at 5 pm, only an hour later than my original flight was scheduled to land!
That evening my buddy and I went to a quaint and expensive little Tunisian restaurant called Épices du Traiteur (which loosely translates to “Spices of the Delicatessen”) on the Upper West Side at 70th Street and Columbus Avenue. We were celebrating the birthday of a Tunisian colleague of his, and it was a fairly interesting evening with a tremendously international flavour to it. There were seven different nationalities represented at that table, so I can only imagine what the office atmosphere at AIESEC must be like!
The food was interesting, although I must admit it’s not something I would enjoy on a daily basis. We ordered a bunch of appetizers and entrees and shared them among us. Most of the names escape me at this point, but I do remember this deep-fried concoction stuffed with tuna and egg and vegetables called brik that was quite tasty. There was also a spinach-and-mint flavoured rice that was delicious and a decent chicken couscous. Most of the food goes well with a spicy sauce called harissa that is very Indian in its flavour.
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