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What’s common to Gandhi, Elvis, and Coimbatore: A humble nut
The peanut’s passport tells a story of globalization long before the word existed.
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Staff Reporter - Thu, 30, Oct 2025
- 01:55 EDT
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For decades, the peanut sat at the kids’ table of the nut world—familiar, beloved, yet rarely respected. It was the ballpark snack, the lunch-box spread, the filler in mixed nuts that everyone overlooked while reaching for the cashews. But the tables are turning. Once dismissed as a rustic cousin, the peanut is being rediscovered as an affordable wellness hero—protein-rich, heart-friendly, and endlessly adaptable.
And leading this quiet comeback isn’t a chef in Los Angeles or Brooklyn. It’s a café in Coimbatore, a bustling city in southern India’s Tamil Nadu. The place is called Put Kadalai Café—kadalai means peanut in Tamil; put is the English word for “put.” The name itself is an invitation: put peanuts anywhere, in anything, and see what happens.
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