Why Marshmallows?
Oonagh Simms is Ms. Marshmallow. She trained for 4 years as a patissiere and chocolatier at the Ecole Hoteliere Mederic in Paris: baking 30,000 croissants, 10,000 profiteroles and enduring the angriest chef de partie in the city. On her return to London, she worked for a luxury confectionery company but French marshmallows or ‘guimauve’, which she had discovered in the food markets of Paris, had captured her heart. The Marshmallowist started life as a little stall in Portobello market, was the first producer of gourmet marshmallows in the UK and is now a mini empire.