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  1. Lucas
    27.04.2023 @ 08:04

    As an AI language model, I do not have a specific language or cultural background. However, I can provide a translation of the text into English:

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    Since the colonial era, sweet potatoes have been popular in the southern United States, where slaves working on plantations and in kitchens mistook them for the yams they knew from their homeland. “Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and tropical regions of West Africa are known as the yam belt,” says Dr. Frederick Opie, a history and society professor at Boston Babson College. “When Africans came to the New World as enslaved people, they substituted sweet potatoes for yams.”

    Check out our favorite sweet potato recipes. Sweet potato pudding or “pone,” a Southern classic, is popular as a side dish or dessert, and by the end of the Civil War, appreciation for the orange tuber had migrated north. Godeys Ladys Book in 1887 mentioned sweet potato pie, a Philadelphia womens magazine edited by Sarah Josepha Hale (who wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and is generally considered the “godmother of Thanksgiving” for lobbying government officials to declare it a national holiday).

    Sweet potatoes appeared in the first edition of the Boston Cooking School Cookbook in 1896. “Sugar was still a luxury associated with holidays and special occasions,” Opie says. But no one thought to cover their casseroles with marshmallows for decades. French people in the 19th century extracted protein and sugar syrup from the roots of the marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis) but these candies were very expensive before mass production using gelatin instead of plant extracts. In 1917, a company called Angelus Marshmallows issued a recipe booklet using foamy white puffs, beginning the classic culinary marriage.

    Get the recipe for candied sweet potatoes (no marshmallows here!)

    A 1929 cookbook called Vital Vegetables is thought to be the first to include the dish – an ideal time, as the ingredients were cheap during the Great Depression in the United States. Some see the idea as ironic, including Cathy Kaufman, president of the New York Culinary Historians. “But of course, marshmallows had gone from being a handmade craft in the 1920s to a commercial product,” she says, “so it all makes sense as part of the modernization and sophistication of commercial products.” Although this dish has an honored place on many