March 4 2023 The Stupid and Beautiful Paradox of Peanut Butter at home
The good part is that, rather than be frustrated by the sadistic designer, I've learned not to be angry every time I try to remove the top. Now I see it as a meditation as I use a knife (that amazing invention to be discussed in a future blog!) to slowly mindfully "zen slice" the top, then roll back and peer joyfully at the beautiful peanut butter below. Fully immersed in the now! I've changed frustration into a new meditation.
The Amazing: We take everything for granted. Yet there is a long and creative history to the development of peanut butter. It was NOT magically developed in the grocery store. Who would have thought that peanuts (also known as groundnut, goober, pindar or monkey nuts),
those underground seeds,
could end up in such great tasting things as Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, be tasty right off the spoon, and be absolutely wonderful as peanut butter cookies. Humanity can be so tastefully inventive!
According to the National Peanut Board
From: https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/who-invented-peanut-butter.htm
"The earliest reference to peanut butter can be traced back to the Ancient Incas and the Aztecs who ground roasted peanuts into a paste. However, modern peanut butter, its process of production and the equipment used to make it, can be credited to at least three inventors.
In 1884 Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Canada patented peanut paste, the finished product from milling roasted peanuts between two heated surfaces. In 1895 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (the creator of Kellogg’s cereal) patented a process for creating peanut butter from raw peanuts. He marketed it as a nutritious protein substitute for people who could hardly chew on solid food. In 1903, Dr. Ambrose Straub of St. Louis, Missouri, patented a peanut-butter-making machine."
Thank you Aztecs, Edson, Kellog, and Straub!
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