{"id":25116,"date":"2022-09-26T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=25116"},"modified":"2023-01-11T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:03:38","slug":"food-facts-a-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=25116","title":{"rendered":"Food, Facts, & A Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Lou Burton posting from Zanzibar Serena Hotel, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania<\/em> \u2013 Who doesn\u2019t love pizza? The minute I saw \u201cpizza\u201d on the menu I knew that\u2019s what I was ordering. I\u2019d read about \u201cZanzibar Pizza\u201d and was dying to try it \u2013 not Italian<\/em> pizza, but Zanzibar<\/em> pizza. You take unleavened dough, stretch it thin and fill it with beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables, cheese, eggs, whatever you please. Then you wrap the sides around, throw it into a pan full of butter, and fry it to a crispy gold! You can also make it sweet: bananas, mangoes, chocolate spread, even peanut butter. We\u2019d had our Zanzibar coffee \"\"<\/a>earlier, now with the Walking Tour done, Rick and I were in a tiny restaurant-by-the-sea for our lunch break. Said and Ali would fetch us later for our ride south to the Spice Farm. Lots to talk about \u2013 Rick had wandered through several hundred years of civilization in the last few hours. Stone Town is on Unguja, the largest of the Zanzibar Archipelago\u2019s four main islands; it is 53 miles long and 24 miles wide, about 25 miles from Tanzania\u2019s mainland. Zanzibar\u2019s population (all islands) is under 2 million. Zanzibar City, of which Stone Town is a part, is the capital of this semi-autonomous province-within-a-country. That\u2019s the geography. We needed to get Zanzibar\u2019s HISTORY unscrambled in our heads, so, dates next.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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