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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Secret History of Peanut Butter: How One Woman Changed the FDA

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Also on this week’s show: Do low-fat diets work?; Filipino food in Tel Aviv; and yellow split pea curry. (Originally aired 4/5, 2018.)

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Christopher Kimball.

0:03.2

Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio.

0:05.4

You can go to our website, www.177milkstreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television

0:10.6

show, or to get our latest cookbooks.

0:13.1

Here's this week's show.

0:16.6

This is Mostriot Radio from Parax.

0:21.2

I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

0:24.5

On today's show I speak with Chrissy Clark about how one consumer crusader, that's Ruth

0:28.6

Desmond.

0:29.6

We used a peanut butter controversy to change our food regulation system.

0:34.8

A lot of what the FDA does now, and what it was doing back in the time of these peanut

0:39.2

butter wars, was trying to figure out how many peanuts should there be in peanut butter,

0:43.9

and should it be 100% peanuts, or if not, then where should the line be drawn?

0:49.2

And that quickly becomes an existential question, even if you think it's a really simple

0:52.8

question at the beginning.

0:57.1

Before we dive into peanut butter, we check in with reporter Shayna Shealey, who visited

1:01.4

the bus station in Tel Aviv to get great Filipino food.

1:06.9

Shayna, how are you?

1:08.4

I'm good, how are you?

1:09.7

Good.

1:10.7

Let's start in Tel Aviv on a Saturday afternoon, a Sabbath.

1:15.0

There's a very large bus station, 2.5 million square feet there.

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