A great piece in WND today about George Washington Carver who revolutionized agriculture in the South by advocating rotational crops to replenish the soil with nitrogen and discovering about a zillion uses for the lowly peanut. Born around the end of the Civil War, his mother and sister were kidnapped soon afterwards and the kidnappers left the infant Carver to die, but he didn't. Instead, he was raised in Missouri by German immigrant parents, went to Iowa State where he graduated with a degree in agriculture, and went on to be a professor at Tuskegee Institute.
In 1928 Carver said:“Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill. …With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum. … Then the passage, ‘I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me,’ came to have real meaning.”
Here is the short list of some of the products he developed:
"... peanut butter, salted peanuts, peanut flour, peanut flakes, peanut meal, cream from peanut milk, butter from peanut milk, egg yolk, breakfast food, bisque powder, cheese, cream cheese, cheese pimento, cheese sandwich, cheese tutti frutti, cocoa, crystallized peanuts, curds, granulated potatoes, potato nibs, golden nuts, mock coconut, pancake flour, peanut hearts, peanut surprise, peanut wafers, pickle, sweet pickle, shredded peanuts, substitute asparagus."
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