The Birth of Peanut Butter
The Birth of Peanut Butter
This chapter charts the birth of peanut butter and the peanut butter industry in the United States. Peanut butter began as an upper-class food: guests at turn-of-the-twentieth-century health sanitariums helped establish its popularity among the well-to-do. As a result of Americans' fondness for the taste of roasted peanuts, the spread of peanut butter from the 1890s to the early 1900s was rapid. The history of peanut butter has gone through five major changes: first, in the type of peanut used to make it; second, in how peanut butter is prepared; third, in the kinds of textures available; fourth, in the container used; and fifth, in terms of distribution. Food historian Andrew F. Smith says John Harvey Kellogg is the father of modern peanut butter, but others, including University of Georgia professor of food science Jasper Woodroof, insists that it is George Bayle.
Keywords: peanut butter, peanut butter industry, United States, peanuts, John Harvey Kellogg, George Bayle
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