Peanut butter a taste some Americans never outgrow

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Erica Marcus - NEWSDAY | Copyright information

WHEN Lee Zalben was a child, his mother grew tired of finding the family peanut butter jar ravaged by the fingers of her two sons. So she made sure there were always three jars on the shelf, marked "Lee," "Scott" and "Mom" -- Deborah Zalben herself being no stranger to midnight peanut-butter cravings. Then they all could plunder their own peanut butter with spoonless abandon. Zalben never outgrew his love of peanut butter, and in 1998 the former advertising executive founded the Peanut Butter...

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