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The
peanut is truly a world food.
From its cradle in the pre-Inca
Amazon basin, the peanut has traveled the globe
and rooted itself in the cuisines and cultures
of Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Its impact
has been broader than that of any other New
World food.
In each continent
it mingled with spices and native flavors,
giving rise to culinary invention. In many
cultures, it became a dietary staple. Amazingly,
parallel means of cooking peanuts cropped
up across the oceans.
A hundred
and one peanut sauces sprout from the global
kitchen whether it is Thai satay sauce or
the Equadorian ocopo, cousins to each other.
Practical and beloved, the peanut takes you
on a voyage of culinary discovery that encircles
the globe and opens up worlds of flavors.
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