Creamy and crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food

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Label

Creamy and crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food

Title remainder

an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food

Statement of responsibility

Jon Krampner

Creator

• Krampner, Jon, 1952-

Subject

• Peanut butter -- United States -- History

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Arts and traditions of the table

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

641.3/56596

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TX803.P35

LC item number

K73 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Arts and traditions of the table