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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Espumilla is an Ecuadorian street sweet made from whipped egg whites, sugar, and fresh fruit pulp — beaten together until the mixture reaches a thick, glossy, pipeable consistency and served immediately in cones or cups. It contains no dairy. The texture is lighter than ice cream and denser than mousse — a stabilized meringue foam […]

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