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by Luigi on October 17, 2009
It’s Carver Day at the Missouri Botanical Garden today. Sounds like fun. We’ve blogged about George Washington Carver and his pioneering interest in, and work with, agrobiodiversity before. He was a Missouri native, which I think is his only connection to MoBo, but that’s ok, any excuse is good to celebrate such a man. If you go, let us know.
Show on map David Williams remembers Ed Percival:
Ed’s father was working for the United Fruit Company in Guatemala where he met and married Ed’s mother, a Guatemalan. Ed was born at the United Fruit Company hospital in Quiriguá, an archaeological site on the Rio Motagua, famous for its incomparable array of Mayan stelae, one of which is featured on the country’s 10 centavo coin.
There’s more, check it out.
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I was playing Cranium on Friday, and a question came up about George Washington Carver, namely, what crop he was trying to find new uses for. I wanted to say cotton, but my teammate suddenly and unexpectedly spouted off a bunch of stuff about peanuts, and we agreed to go with that. Victorious! Celebrate Carver with some peanut butter!
I’m allergic to peanut butter. I prefer sunflower butter.
But I sometimes buy peanut butter cups for Halloween–so I don’t eat them before the kids come by
I have not tried sunflower butter, interesting. Almond butter gets high marks from me.
I bet you might be excited about the prospect of a hypoallergenic peanut…