Americans absolutely nuts about peanut butter, Creamy concoction exerts strong hold on young, old

From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: September 24, 2003 | Copyright information

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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 & Co., a Manhattan sandwich store specializing in peanut butter with a growing retail and ...

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