Shane Mitchell

“Miss Georgia Peach had the first taste of the “World’s Largest Peach Cobbler” — 75 gallons of peaches, 70 pounds of butter, 150 pounds of sugar, 150 pounds of flour, 32 gallons of milk  — baked in a brick oven lined with school bus floor panels next to the county courthouse during Fort Valley’s annual peach festival. The line for free cobbler wrapped around concession stands and down the block.”

There’s a lot of history, a lot of love, and not a little human suffering behind that juicy tomato and mayo sandwich.

Peanuts are essential to baseball games school lunches, state fairs, and even prison commissaries: the fascinating, sometimes ugly, history of the world’s favorite ground nut.