Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire, is one of the biggest cocoa producers from all over the world. Côte d'Ivoire was the pride of the French colonial power. Ivory Coast is located in West Africa, on the southern coast, exporting cocoa, palm oil and coffee. Almost every house from Ivory Coast has the basic kitchen equipment such as wooden pestles, mallets for grinding, ovens and all the other necessary cooking equipment. The Ivorian food is prepared in big calabashes. The dishes are also washed in the calabashes and the cassava is pounded there. The calabashes are used in universal purposes in Ivory Coast. After the meals are prepared, the Ivorian people are doing their laundry or even bathing their children in these multi purpose calabashes. “Maquis” is the name for the Ivorian traditional resta