Guess what Hibiscus plants and S’mores have in common? No really, guess. Marshmallows. What?  Oh, yes!  Of course, I will explain, in 200 words or less.  You see, in one of my recent posts, I misspelled the word marshmallow. After being corrected by my friend Janet, I went to fix it, and got to wondering why it’s spelled “mallow” instead of “mellow”. Although the legend varies, the rough basics of it is that there was a dessert made from the root of a marsh mallow plant that was fluffy, and that when the plant root was replaced by a man-made syrup as an ingredient, the dessert also morphed into today’s sugar-on-sugar puffy treat, the marshmallow.  Another version of the story claims that the confection we know as a marshmallow resembles the flower of the … Read entire article »