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Eating the Past

Eating the Past: How gumbo got its name

By Jamie Sanders
Published October 28, 2022 at 2:31 PM MDT
An okra plant.

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

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Jamie Sanders
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.
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