Creamy & crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food /
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 billi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Peanuts 101
- The social rise of the peanut
- The birth of peanut butter
- Peter Pan: "improved by hydrogenation"
- How Peter Pan lost its groove
- Skippy: "he made his first jar of peanut butter in his garage"
- Skippy on top
- Jif: "but is it still peanut butter?"
- "Choosy moms choose ..."
- Peanut butter goes international
- The music of peanut butter
- Deaf Smith: what's old-fashioned is new again
- The rise and fall of the florunner
- The peanut butter crisis of 1980
- "You mean it's not good for me?"
- The short, happy life of Sorrells Pickard
- Peanut Corporation of America: "there was no red flag"
- Peanut butter saves the world
- Where are the peanut butters of yesteryear?
- Appendix 1: Author's recommendations
- Appendix 2: Peanut butter time line.