{"id":16094,"date":"2017-12-13T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:54:39","slug":"books-and-peanut-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=16094","title":{"rendered":"Books and Peanut Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Did you know:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>that it takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter?<\/li>\n<li>that the favorite bread for a PBJ sandwich is white, and the favorite spread is strawberry jam? (Grape jelly second.)<\/li>\n<li>that Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley favored sliced banana on their peanut butter sandwich?<\/li>\n<li>that creamy peanut butter is more popular on the east coast, chunky on the west?<\/li>\n<li>that peanuts are called \u201cground peas\u201d because they grow underground?<\/li>\n<li>that goober \u2013 a nickname for peanuts \u2013 comes from \u201cnguba,\u201d the Congo language name for peanut?<\/li>\n<li>that two of our presidents \u2013 Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter \u2013 were peanut farmers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which brings us to President James A Garfield (1831-1881). Mr Garfield was the 20<sup>th<\/sup> president of the United States, unfortunately serving only 200 days due to an assassin\u2019s bullet. But he left behind a number of interesting quotations, such as \u201cThe chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is also claimed that he said \u201cMan cannot live by bread alone, he must have peanut butter.\u201d Did he really say that? Did he begin with the Biblical quote found in Matthew, and again in Luke, \u201cMan shall not live by bread alone\u201d and amend it a bit? Was he trying to create a humorous image?<\/p>\n<p>There are those who say he <em>couldn\u2019t<\/em> have said it \u2013 that peanut butter \u201chadn\u2019t been invented\u201d by the time he died in 1881. They point to US Patent 306,727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson in 1884 for the manufacture of peanut butter. And then there were the Kellogg brothers, who patented the process of preparing peanut butter with steamed nuts in 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on, others say. The Incas developed a paste of ground peanuts way back in 950 BC! And the Aztecs were making peanut butter as early as the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century. These are claims one can \u201cdig up\u201d with a Google Goober search. George Washington Carver, who began teaching and researching at Tuskegee Institute in 1896, is considered by some to be the \u201cfather\u201d of the peanut butter industry \u2013 he came up with more than 300 uses for peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t really matter who did what first, we\u2019re just glad for peanut butter today \u2014 Jif, Peter Pan, Skippy, all the brands. And, being a publishing house, naturally we\u2019re glad for BOOKS, thank goodness for the printed word, for the opportunity to exchange ideas with millions of people, how great is that? Nourishment for the mind, body and spirit, and so we say:<\/p>\n<p><em>We cannot live by bread alone, we must have books and peanut butter!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know: that it takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter? that the favorite bread for a PBJ sandwich is white, and the favorite spread is strawberry jam? (Grape jelly second.) that Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley favored sliced banana on their peanut butter sandwich? that creamy peanut butter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4588],"tags":[3388,1498,1930,3389,3390,3391,3392,3393,3394,2007,3395,3396,3397,3398,3399,3400,2113,3401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26350,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions\/26350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}