Milks - update

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>> As almond, rice and soya milks are listed, peanut milk might be a good candidate as well.
>>
>> George Washington Carver is known for making "Jersey" quality peanut milk (http://ow.ly/8eshM), something I recall from a biography I read of him in elementary school. According to the Wikipedia article on him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver), Carver was active in promoting it in 1919 even though a patent had been granted to someone else in 1917.
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> in the Wikipedia milk entry.

The Wikipedia article on milk doesn't have anything on peanut milk or Carver than I can see; Carver isn't even mentioned in the peanut milk article... BB

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