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Eric Jennings, “Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean.”

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Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) joins Philip Gooding to discuss his newly published book “Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean”

Scholar profile: https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/eric-jennings 

Book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264531/vanilla/ 


Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Photo Credit: “Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean” book cover published by Yale University Press, (August 2025).


The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

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