On Saturday, March 12, Alice headed to Middlebury for its third annual Winter Carnival and Vermont Chili Festival. More than fifty vendors brought hot meat and beans for celebrants to try. Watch as Alice, the Middlebury Fire Department and even a pair of rare kunekune pigs get in on the act.

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