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Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

As American as Peanut Butter and Jelly

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Today’s post is by 2011 Junior Fellow  Brian Horowitz of Montgomery College in Maryland. Brian is also the author of  the  Art of War…and of Sandwich Making and Stumbled upon in the Stacks– a brief biography of Brevet Major Alfred Mordecai. In elementary school my favorite lunch consisted of a peanut butter and jelly (PB&J)  sandwich in a brown …