Are you curious about boiled peanuts? Who isn’t?Are you a boiled peanut lover, but now live where they can’t be found? Do you have friends who seriously need education about the ecstasy of boiled peanuts?Are you ready to try something new, exotic and exciting in the way of boiled peanuts?This book is for you. Explore the origin and history of boiled peanuts. Learn how to get them, grow them and boil them. Savor the basic, then step up to exotic new recipes. Become a connoisseur of the Caviar of the South, an aficionado of the Goober Pea, an expert on all things boiled peanut. Get cracking. Are you curious about boiled peanuts? Who isn't?Are you a boiled peanut lover, but now live where they can't be found? Do you have friends who seriously need education about the ecstasy of boiled peanuts?Are you ready to try something new, exotic and exciting in the way of boiled peanuts?This book is for you. Explore the origin and history of boiled peanuts. Learn how to get them, grow them and boil them. Savor the basic, then step up to exotic new recipes. Become a connoisseur of the Caviar of the South, an aficionado of the Goober Pea, an expert on all things boiled peanut. Get cracking. Robert Deen is a southern expatriate living on the misty Pacific Northwest coast - longing for fresh boiled peanuts.He is a former U.S. Marine officer, parachutist and scuba diver, and a distinguished honor graduate of the Department of Defense Information School. He holds a journalism degree from Oregon State University and a masters degree in Communications from California State University, Chico.  Deen founded what became California's largest independently owned public relations agency, with $15 million in annual revenues.  After the firm was acquired by Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide he served there as a managing director.After leaving the corporate world Deen retired to the Oregon Coast, where he writes on a variety of subjects, particularly hunting and fishing.  Other books include "The Alternatives to Gridlock", a policy treatise on transportation financing published by the California Institute of Public Affairs; "Opportunities in Business Communications", a career guide from the National Textbook Company; and "Images of Owyhee County", a historical book focused on a high desert community in Southwestern Idaho.