It was a typical enough Saturday morning. I was paying a visit to Alabama Peanut Co. in Birmingham, Alabama, picking up essential snacks for a road trip. Before even perusing the many compelling ...

Boiled peanuts are a traditional and healthy snack food in many parts of the South. Most Southerners say that appreciation of boiled peanuts is an acquired taste, however, and not necessarily ...

Boiled peanuts are a traditional and healthy snack food in many parts of the South. Most Southerners say that appreciation of boiled peanuts is an acquired taste, however, and not necessarily ...

If there's anything that makes me feel homesick, it's the scent of boiled peanuts. Although I grew up primarily outside the South, my family moved to Central Florida when I was in high school, and it ...

When it comes to boiled peanuts and dry-roasted peanuts, where do you stand? Fact checked by Jennifer HawkMedically reviewed by Jerlyn Jones, MS, MPA, RDN, LD, CLTFact checked by Jennifer ...

Ok, I know it sounds weird if you are not from the South, but there’s just something about cracking open a steamy peanut and tasting that salty, savory goodness that takes me right back to Southern ...

Around here, May peas are in. So are beets, blackberries and summer squash. But another quintessentially Southern season has begun: boiled peanut season. It starts in midspring when the first green ...

This Saturday is the 10th Annual Palmetto Peanut Boil competition on Devine Street. Teams from around the Midlands will be offering up their very best recipes for what has been nicknamed “Southern ...

Are boiled peanuts so important to our culture we need to honor them with a historical marker? Of course. And, as far as I can determine, Alabama is the only state to have such a marker. It was ...