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Eating the Past

Eating the Past: How an Ohio company used radio hosts to market Crisco

By Jamie Sanders
Published March 30, 2023 at 11:37 AM MDT
A vintage blue 3 lb. can of Crisco for cakes, pastry, frying.
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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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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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