Nomadic Kitchen is a food & travel journal and marshmallow confectionery based out of Vermont.
in the summer months...
the marshmallows are heartier than you'd think, but are prone to melting if left in temperatures above 75 for an extended period of time. we are doing 2-day shipping and adding "protect from heat" stickers to all our packages, which usually prevents the boxes from being left in mailboxes or in the sun, but if you live somewhere warm, or are concerned you won't be able to retrieve your package close to drop-off, please select "hot weather shipping" at checkout. we cannot be responsible for packages that sit out in the heat or delays caused by shipping carriers.
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Nomadic Kitchen is...
a rotating collection of handcrafted, boldly-flavored, pillowy-as-heck marshmallows, and Vermont's premiere marshmallow confectionery. Perpetually curious chef & Vermont-native, Alexx Shuman, utilizes her extensive culinary background and adventurous palate to completely reinvent the campfire favorite. Flavors change with both the seasons and Alexx's own culinary discoveries, continuously surprising anyone who thinks a marshmallow is a marshmallow is a marshmallow.
Alexx is...
The Marshmallow Girl! I'm a multi-passionate doer, a nurturing rule breaker, a crier, and a classically-trained chef who panicked when she realized that working in the restaurant industry was making her fall out of love with making food. Oh no! Unwilling to sacrifice such an integral part of my being, I left, promising myself that down the line I'd find a more innovative way to put food the center of my life. A few years working in Boston start-ups, an MBA, and a stint living in Provence writing about food later, and I found myself back in my beloved home state of Vermont.
There is a T.S. Eliot poem that starts,
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
I'd said it a million times: "If I hadn't grown up in Vermont, I'd have moved there already." And at last, after 12 years away, all was new again. What was once an old stomping ground was now an opportunity to fulfill the promise I'd made to myself nearly a decade earlier. Once again comfortably cradled by the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains, I set out to tie all the threads of my 20s together into the beautiful bow that is Nomadic Kitchen: my hub for a lifetime of culinary excitement, exploration, and entrepreneurship.
When not reinventing the marshmallow, you can find me testing life's limits, feeling all my feelings, remembering your dog's name, and defending the Oxford comma. My written work has been featured on NPR, The Culture-ist, and Epicure & Culture.