Chapter 2: Breaking the Spell
Recipe 2: Sugar-Free Marshmallows from Scratch
We have made sugar innocent. Somewhere along the way, we decided that a substance refined to 99.9% purity—more chemically pure than most drugs—was just "food." We've forgotten that our ancestors treated sugar like medicine, doling it out in careful doses, understanding its power to heal or harm. The spell of industrial sweetness has made us forget what real sweetness tastes like: the complexity of maple syrup that took forty gallons of sap to create, the mineral richness of raw honey that carries the essence of a thousand flowers, the gentle satisfaction of fruit that ripened slowly in actual sunlight. Breaking this spell isn't about deprivation—it's about awakening your taste buds to flavors so much more complex and satisfying than anything a laboratory could create.