..., preventing it from separating from the peanut solids. This is why peanut butter with hydrogenated oil doesn't need to be refrigerated. Joseph Rosefield of Alameda, California is widely acknowledged for the first patent to hydrogenate peanut butter. But it was Pittsburgh inventor Frank Stockton who filed...

...This chapter charts the history of the Skippy brand of peanut butter. Skippy was launched in 1933, five years after Peter Pan, amid the Great Depression. Skippy peanut butter was the brainchild of Joseph Rosefield (birth name Rosenfield), a native of Louisville, Kentucky. The Rosefield Packing...

... campaign that ran in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and American Home. In 1955 the Rosefield Packing Company was purchased by Best Foods, ending forty years of ownership by the family of Joseph Rosefield, the man who created Skippy. Frank Delfino...