Here are today’s five thing to know about the Peanut:

1. It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
2. There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
3. By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.
4. Peanut butter was first introduced to the USA in 1904 at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis by C.H. Sumner, who sold $705.11 of the “new treat” at his concession stand.
5. In 1884, Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec was the first person to patent peanut butter.

Today’s Pinterest Board : Peanut

Today’s Food History

• 1592 Michel de Montaigne died. French essayist. There are a few of his quotes about food and dining listed on the Food Reference website.
  (“A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.”)
• 1857 Milton Snaveley Hershey of chocolate fame was born.
• 1876 American author, Sherwood Anderson was born. In 1941 Anderson supposedly swallowed a toothpick or a swizzle stick while at a cocktail party in the Panama Canal Zone, and died of peritonitis.
• 1909 ‘The Chocolate Soldier,’ an operetta by Oscar Straus and Stanislaus Strange, opened in New York.
• 1916 Roald Dahl was born. British author, one of his most popular books was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ the film version was titled ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.’ Some of his other books are ‘A Piece of Cake,’ ‘Pig,’ ‘Royal Jelly,’ ‘Smell’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter.’
• 1922 The highest temperature ever recorded in the shade, 136.4 degrees F was recorded in a village 25 miles south of Tripoli, Libya.
• 1955 Little Richard recorded ‘Tutti Frutti’
• 1977 Fiona Apple, singer, songwriter was born.