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Preparing daily meals for 900 boarding students is no trivial task. This is one of two smoke-filled kitchens at the students' dining facilities, where cooks labor over huge vats heated by wood fires. Here the cooks are making ugali, Tanzania's staple dish, a stiff porridge made from maize flour. Ugali and beans form the bulk of the students' diet at most schools in Tanzania.