Spicy Peanut Sauce

“A remarkable peculiarity of this plant is that the flowers insert their ovaries into the ground, where they complete their growth, and where the seeds or nuts ripen.” So Vilmorin-Andrieux’s The Vegetable Garden (1885) explained the peanut to Europeans. Although native to Brazil, the goober or groundnut, as it was called, became part of southern earth-food by way of the Portuguese slave trade. Because the nut was as nutritious as it was transportable,