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Article: Quite a spread; Peanut butter is going gourmet, with entire cafes devoted to the once-humble sandwich filler
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
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- August 31, 2005
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As a staple of the American diet, peanut butter can be enjoyed in a variety of ways, including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts removed.
Peanut butter.
It's as American as baseball and apple pie.
In fact, American kids, on average, will have pried about 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches from the roofs of their mouths by the time they graduate from high school.
From its modest beginnings as a staple in the diet of Civil War soldiers, peanut butter has morphed into the latest in gourmet goo, with entire cafes opening in the name of that childhood favorite.
Lee Zalben, mastermind of Peanut Butter & Co., a New York cafe specializing in everything peanutty, realized the ...