Jamie Sanders
Eating the Past HostJamie Sanders is a historian of Latin America at Utah State and his family’s cook. He grew up in the rural South and loves its regional cuisine, but a study abroad trip to the Yucatán when he was a teenager really awakened him to international food culture.
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Iowa might be about the best place on earth to grow corn, but it was not domesticated there. Humans created corn about 9,000 years ago, far to the south of Iowa in the highlands of Mexico.
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Why did Bourbon become associated with Kentucky? Today over 95% of the world's Bourbon is made in Kentucky.
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Host Jamie Sanders talks with Lynne McNeil, Professor of Folklore at Utah State University about her home state of California and one of its most valuable crop, grapes and wine. California's has a long history with wine. The first vineyard was planted in the late 1700's by Spanish missionaries.
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In this week's episode we are heading into Camden Yards, the baseball stadium of the Baltimore Orioles. Indigenous to Maryland are crab cakes, which when I first visited Camden Yards in 2002 seemed like an exotic luxury in a ballpark.
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Fred Harvey got his start with a partnership to provide depot side food service to the Santa Fe Railroad. Harvey's company is often seen as the first restaurant chain in the U.S.
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There is a whole micro industry of food bloggers and Tik Tokers that can tell you how to make gourmet meals while camping in the great outdoors. While these concoctions do look delicious, this week's Eating the Past with Jamie Sanders explores simpler fair while camping.
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What exactly is frozen custard? This week host Jamie Sanders explores the differences between ice cream and frozen custard with guest Dr. Aims McGuinness.
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In this episode host Jamie Sanders explores the deep connection between Texas beef brisket and how it became the epitome of Texas barbecue.
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On this episode of Eating the Past, host Jamie Sanders explores Crisco, created by Procter & Gamble in Ohio.
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On this episode, host Jamie Sanders dives into Pennsylvania, with a particular focus on Pittsburgh.