Creamy & crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food /
"Creamy and Crunchy feature 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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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| Summary: | "Creamy and Crunchy feature 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."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231162326 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231162324 (cloth : alk. paper) |