Boiled peanuts: for most Southerners, those words conjure memories of running barefoot through freshly mown grass on a warm summer evening, or of cheering on the home team from rough, weather-worn bleachers. But for the uninitiated outside our region, who have never seen peanuts any way but toasted and served forth in a bowl on the top of a bar or ground and slathered between two slices of white bread, it probably sounds like a culinary train wreck. Read More
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23 October 2014: Boiled Peanuts
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Oct 23, 2014 8:40 AM EDT
Can green peanuts be shipped if refrigerated? I've seen bags of Georgia-sourced Hardy's boiling peanuts here in New York, in Manhattan's Chinatown, and I've come across peanuts still on the boil on numerous occasions. Immigrants from Fujian province, that part of mainland China nearest Taiwan, seem to be particualrly fond of them.
- Dave Cook, Eating In Translation
Oct 23, 2014 9:53 AM EDT
Dave,
Honestly, I've not kept up with the technology. When I first wrote about boiled peanuts twenty years ago, it was long before anyone like the Lee Brothers were offering boiled peanuts seriously off their home turf. I'd have to see the peanuts you get up there to know if they were partially cured. They probably would ship and store for a very short time under refrigeration.
Of course, it is possible to boil cured peanuts, too but they don't ever have quite the same texture or flavor as green ones.
Fascinating about the Fujian immigrants! It's a lesson that we all need to travel and talk to our colleagues in other places! Thanks for writing and for sharing.
- Damon Lee Fowler