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The S’more the Merrier Celebrate five years of Sugar Rush’s gourmet mallowy goodness with half-price s’mores all month long. There’s not a more iconic summer snack than s’mores. And nobody believes in that more than Julie and Jean Summers, the wife-and-wife duo behind Sugar Rush Marshmallows in Winter Garden. “Our goal was to open a s’mores business,” says Julie. “But to do that, we had to start with marshmallows.” The two have been carting their S’mores-Mobile across central
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Florida,selling their hand-made, gourmet marshmallows. “We toast everything live. It’s a good show,” says Julie. “We love watching people walk around with s’mores— their hands are all sticky, their face is all messy, but they don’t care. It’s like being a kid again. We love being part of that energy.” So, what goes into a gourmet marshmallow anyway? A lot more
than you think. “A store-bought marshmallow is fluffed up with a jet puffer to give it shape and structure, whereas gourmet marshmallows are made in a mixer and cut,” explains Julie. “There are around 10 gourmet marshmallow companies in the country. But they all have completely different marshmallow-making methods. We did 200 different protypes
