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Who’s Who in Food
Culinary Personalities

Who's Who: P-Q-R
Pace, David E.
Page, Karen
Papin, Denis
Pasteur, Louis
• Peanut, Mr.
Pemberton, John S.
Perkins, Edwin E.
Phillipe, Count Odette
Plautus
Plunkett, Roy J.
Post, Charles William
Proust, Joseph-Louis
Proust, Marcel
Prudhomme, Paul
Reese, H. B.
Ritz, Cesar
Rodier, Father Clement
Rohwedder, Otto Frederick

Mr. Peanut

(1916 - )

Mr. Peanut was created by 13 year-old Antonio Gentile in a logo contest held by Planters in 1916.  He won the grand prize of $5.00.  His drawing of a peanut person with arms and crossed legs was refined by a professional illustrator who added the top hat, monocle, white gloves and cane.     

There is a statue and museum honoring Mr. Peanut in his home town of Suffolk, Virginia, the 'Peanut Capital of the World.'

See also: Peanuts

 

 

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