Sweet potato pie is an African American dessert with roots in West African food culture, where yams and tubers were central to the diet and appeared in sweet preparations long before the Atlantic slave trade brought Africans to the American South. Enslaved Black cooks on Southern plantations worked with sweet potatoes — a crop that […]

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Pé de moleque means “street kid’s foot” or “rascal’s foot” in Portuguese — the name refers to the candy’s surface, which resembles the irregular cobblestones of Brazilian street pavement when the peanuts are pressed into the caramelized sugar and it sets. It is a peanut brittle made from roasted peanuts and caramelized sugar or rapadura […]

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