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Eating the Past: Famous vegetarians

Book cover for "The Fearless Benjamin Lay" by Marcus Rediker

Marcus Rediker is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of numerous books including the prize winning "The Slave Ship: A Human History."

In this episode Rediker discusses his book, "The Fearless Benjamin Lay," the little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life. He was also a devoted vegetarian.

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.