Windsor is the spot where Vermont’s constitution was signed in 1777. Another first for the state makes its home in the small town – a Tanzanian restaurant called Mariam’s. Watch Alice learn to make ugali, a cornmeal staple food in Tanzania, then learn to eat sans utensils.

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Click here to read more about Mariam’s Restaurant, including who Mariam herself was.

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