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Eating the Past: How gumbo got its name

An okra plant.

In this episode of Eating the Past, host Jamie Sanders visits Louisiana to explore its cuisine, especially okra and gumbo.

Jamie 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.