Ever wanted to eat like the first Vermonters? In honor of last year’s Lake Champlain Quadricentennial, the folks at the Burlington Intervale began growing an Abenaki Heritage Garden. To celebrate the harvest, the Intervale threw a party last week with historically accurate food, including succotash and moose cooked with hot stones.

AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.