Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober PeaUniversity of Illinois Press, 2006 - 272 pages The peanut's rise from a lowly bean to national favorite The peanut is one of the most versatile and beloved of American food icons. In this first culinary history of the protein-laden legume, Andrew F. Smith follows the peanut's rise from a lowly, messy snack food to its place in haute cuisine and on candy racks across the country. Chronicling how peanut consumption and production has changed throughout history, Smith highlights the peanut's role in the ways economic distress, wartime conditions, industrialization, and health trends reflect and inform our culinary landscape. Chock-full of photographs, advertisements, and peanut recipes from as early as 1847, this entertaining and enlightening volume is a testament to the culinary potential and lasting popularity of the goober pea. |
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... million pounds of peanut butter from four million bushels of peanuts.32 Three years later , a single manufacturer produced six million pounds , and dozens of other large fac- tories and hundreds of smaller ones churned out large ...
... million pounds of peanut butter in 1941. The fol- lowing year , this increased to 400 million pounds . The United States govern- ment , the largest single buyer , purchased almost 7 million pounds just for school lunches . The ...
... million pounds of pea- nut butter , or 3.36 pounds per person . According to one market tracker , In- formation Resources of Chicago , the top seller in the $ 810 million peanut butter category is Jif , with sales of $ 271.9 million ...
Table des matières
List of Recipes ix | xv |
Slave Food to Snack Food 11 | xxii |
Doctors and Vegetarians | 30 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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