According to the National Peanut Board, some 94% of American homes have at least one jar of peanut butter in the cupboard.
March is National Peanut Month. The fascinating history of peanuts is a journey from South America, to Asia and Africa, and then to North America. Peanut butter was first introduced at the St. Louis ...
Peanuts are a key ingredient in many of America’s quintessential snacks. Yet few of us know that the ordinary peanut has a turbulent history linked to the slave trade and to colonization on the ...
Most Americans think of peanuts in terms of peanut butter or as a snack at baseball games. The history of peanuts in America, of course, is more complicated than that, and it is often tied to the ...
Peanut butter was introduced in 1904 at the World Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, but it was made popular in 1928 by Swift & Company and its iconic brand.