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Savory S’mores are Very Much Needed Right Now

They're warming, they're comforting, and they're impressive.

Published February 24, 2025

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Jenny Bravo

The following is an excerpt from ​Warm Your Bones: Cozy Recipes for Chilly Days and Winter Nights by Vanessa Seder.

This recipe— or “recipe concept,” given the infinite potential variations—falls squarely into the category of “strange by-products of the pandemic.” At some point in 2022, after months of firepit entertaining and one too many servings of graham crackers, Hershey’s, and marshmallows, I began to ponder whether it might be possible to “adultify” the s’more. Some experimentation followed, and fast-forward to one day last fall, when we invited some friends over and unveiled our subversive “s’morgasbord.” The chorus of oohs and aahs that resulted proved this was an idea whose time had come.

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