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Krampner Jon <1952-> |
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Creamy & crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food / / Jon Krampner ; cover design, Lisa Hamm |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Collana |
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Arts and Traditions of the Table : Perspective on Culinary History |
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Peanut butter - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Peanuts 101 -- 2. The Social Rise of the Peanut -- 3. The Birth Of Peanut Butter -- 4. Peter Pan: "Improved By Hydrogenation" -- 5. How Peter Pan Lost Its Groove -- 6. Skippy: "He Made His First Jar Of Peanut Butter In His Garage" -- 7. Skippy On Top -- 8. Jif: "But Is It Still Peanut Butter?" -- 9. "Choosy Mothers Choose . . ." -- 10. Peanut Butter Goes International -- 11. The Music Of Peanut Butter -- 12. Deaf Smith: What's Old- Fashioned Is New Again -- 13. The Rise And Fall of the Florunner -- 14. The Peanut Butter Crisis of 1980 -- 15. "You Mean It's Not Good for Me?" -- 16. The Short, Happy Life of Sorrells Pickard -- 17. Peanut Corporation of America: "There Was No Red Flag" -- 18. Peanut Butter Saves the World -- 19. Where Are the Peanut Butters of Yesteryear? -- Appendix 1: Author's Recommendations -- Appendix 2: Peanut Butter Time Line -- Notes -- Index |
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More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consoling texture, peanut butter is an enduring favorite, found in the pantries of at least 75 percent of American kitchens. Americans eat more than a billion pounds a year. According to the Southern Peanut Growers, a trade group, that's enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon (although the association doesn't say to what height). |
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Americans spoon it out of the jar, eat it in sandwiches by itself or with its bread-fellow jelly, and devour it with foods ranging from celery and raisins ("ants on a log") to a grilled sandwich with bacon and bananas (the classic "Elvis"). Peanut butter is used to flavor candy, ice cream, cookies, cereal, and other foods. It is a deeply ingrained staple of American childhood. Along with cheeseburgers, fried chicken, chocolate chip cookies (and apple pie), peanut butter is a consummate comfort food. In Creamy and Crunchy are the stories of Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan; the plight of black peanut farmers; the resurgence of natural or old-fashioned peanut butter; the reasons why Americans like peanut butter better than (almost) anyone else; the five ways that today's product is different from the original; the role of peanut butter in fighting Third World hunger; and the Salmonella outbreaks of 2007 and 2009, which threatened peanut butter's sacred place in the American cupboard. To a surprising extent, the story of peanut butter is the story of twentieth-century America, and Jon Krampner writes its first popular history, rich with anecdotes and facts culled from interviews, research, travels in the peanut-growing regions of the South, personal stories, and recipes. |
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