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Have you ever wondered why marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes is a US holiday tradition? Join me on a sweet and sticky deep dive into the history of the most divisive dish at any Thanksgiving table for Inverse's 'Taste of the Holidays' food science series inverse.com/science/candied-sw

Inverse105 years ago, a savvy candy company created the most divisive holiday dish everIn 1917, a marshmallow company commissioned one of the first food influencers to write a cookbook that would fundamentally alter American holiday traditions.
Becca Caddy

This was an incredibly research intensive and intensely fun piece to write. I interviewed chemists and historians, combed through recipe books and marshmallows ads from the early 1900s and even made a sweet potato casserole myself, in the name of science!