Creamy & crunchy : an informal history of peanut butter, the all-American food / Jon Krampner.

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"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 origina...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Arts and traditions of the table.
Main Author: Krampner, Jon, 1952-
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013], ©2013.
Series:Arts and traditions of the table.
Subjects:
Peanut butter > United States > History.
Physical Description:xv, 298 pages : illustrations, diagram, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Peanuts
  • 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.