Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea

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University of Illinois Press, 2002 - 234 pages
"Shunned by southern aristocrats and the northern elite in antebellum America, peanuts were originally considered ungenteel and only fit for slaves and the poor to eat. But as Americans grew more keen on the portable, filling and inexpensive snack, peanuts became available at fairs, circuses, and theaters, whereupon street vendors first enticed consumers with offers for "Fresh, roasted peanuts!" Unlike other food fads, peanuts thrived, and by the turn of the century they were big business."--BOOK JACKET.
 

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Origin and Dispersion
1
Slave Food to Snack Food
11
Soldiers and Vendors
20
Doctors and Vegetarians
30
Unshelled and Shelled
45
6
54
7
72
8
86
Revolution and Transformation
110
An American Icon and a Global Future
121
Historical Recipes
135
PEANUT SOUPS AND PUREES
176
Notes
179
56
185
110
192
135
198

9
103

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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Andrew F. Smith, president of the American Forum for Global Education in New York City, teaches culinary history at the New School University. He is the author of The Tomato in America and many other books.

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