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Really interesting in the end about George Carver who taught sustainable farming techniques.
George Washington Carver is a personal hero of mine. He faced all sorts of hardship and still sought to make the world a better place.
>Kellogg’s “food compound” involved boiling nuts and grinding them into an easily digestible paste for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a spa for all kinds of ailments. That sounds similar to boiled peanuts (except without the grinding), a favorite in the U.S. southern region. I've never had them but would like to. According to Wikipedia, there are even some claims that eating boiled peanuts not only circumve…
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>Kellogg’s “food compound” involved boiling nuts and grinding them into an easily digestible paste for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a spa for all kinds of ailments. That sounds similar to boiled peanuts (except without the grinding), a favorite in the U.S. southern region. I've never had them but would like to. According to Wikipedia, there are even some claims that eating boiled peanuts not only circumve…
A tip to keep the oil from separating: I add about 5ml of water to a jar of peanut butter and stir in well. This creates an emulsion that thickens the peanut butter and prevents the oil from separating out. It improves the spreadability as well.
I'm not sure how an American institution can talk about the history of peanut butter in the US without mentioning Ruth Desmond: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1988/1... She was the underdog who took on agro-industrial companies to ensure peanut butter contained peanuts and not sawdust.
It is incredible (in the strict sense: hard to believe) to discover that many foods are "fake", or contain things that are not supposed to be there.
I suggest a few readings:
0) the book "Real Food / Fake Food" [0]. This is just amazing. Highly recommend it.
1) the book "extra virginity" [1]
2) article about "truffle fraud" [2]
3) article about "fish fraud" [3]
The list could be almost infinite, of course.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-Fake-Youre-Eating/dp/161620...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-Wo...
[2]: https://www.eater.com/2019/5/28/18638762/truffle-fraud-fake-...
[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed...
My parents are from Canada, and when my dad was in the Navy in the 1980s, he was deployed to the UK. His biggest story is that they couldn’t buy peanut butter and Kraft Dinner except at the Base, which was obviously a problem. I travelled to the UK recently and asked someone there about those two items. Peanut butter is available now, but not that popular, but Kraft Dinner was unknown and frankly seemed disgusting to…
I wonder what confusion led to this, macaroni cheese (no `and`) has been a British staple for centuries. Boxed macaroni cheese can be purchased at every Tesco as "cheesy pasta". Judging it to be disgusting I would agree with, but 'unknown'? By no means.