How to make the perfect Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole — theguardian.com

When I asked an American friend what people do to celebrate Thanksgiving, he said that, mostly, they ate. And when they weren’t eating, they were watching football. No church, no gifts, just good food and thankfulness. And what food! Deep-fried turkeys and pumpkin pies, cornbread stuffing and cranberry relish – and (most exotic of all to these British eyes) candied sweet potatoes, a dessert that has somehow fought its way on to the main course of the biggest meal of the year. Though the sweet potato has been an important part of the continent’s diet for millennia, and early European settlers readily adopted it as a pie filling, the Thanksgiving casserole’s infamous marshmallow topping didn’t appear until the early 20th century, apparently at the behest of interested candy manufacturers.

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