num_pages: 320
description: In Creamy and Crunchy are the 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.
language: English
title: Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
publisher: Columbia University Press