Dr. George Washington Carver’s Metropolitan Cake with Peanuts

History books tell us that Dr. Carver was a brilliant research scientist and a dedicated teacher. From Catherine Quick Tillery’s extraordinary book The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute, I learned that recipes played a role in his economic development efforts on behalf of farmers in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1920s. To encoura