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Article: THE POWER OF PEANUT BUTTER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2005
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Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fluffernutters, peanut
butter cups, and good old PB&Js are legendary creations. But other
pairings abound; ask around, and you might hear people swear by
peanut butter and tomato, or bologna, or onion, or even sardines.
"Peanut butter is a very personal food," says Lee Zalben, owner of
Peanut Butter & Company, a Manhattan sandwich shop that specializes
in such variations as the Pregnant Lady, a PB&P (pickle) sandwich,
based on a customer's request, or the fried PB&B&B (bacon and banana)
associated with Elvis Presley.
In the hundred-plus years since it entered our culinary
mainstream, Americans have relied on peanut butter as an inexpensive, ...