Lunchtime Learning: Peanut Butter Popularity! (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
A brief history of the peanut butter sandwich, from the origins of the peanut plant, to the advent of nut butters, to the ingredients that make each sandwich unique (like pickles, bananas, milk, chili sauce and jelly). With advice on sandwich making pulled from 19th century texts, and a variety of vintage sandwiches, both delicious and horrific.
