Cassandra Thomas never would’ve thought a disagreement with her husband over the menu for Thanksgiving dinner one year would be the catalyst for an almost 40-year-old sweet potato business.
When Cassandra and Jeffery Thomas spent their first Thanksgiving together as a married couple in 1976, he wanted his wife to make candied sweet potatoes for dinner. She wasn’t a fan. But she offered him a compromise in the form of sweet potato cookies.
“I’ve been baking ever since I was a little girl, and I love cookies,” she told BridgeDetroit. “That’s why I said sweet potato cookies, to get him to leave me alone about these candied yams because I didn’t want to make them.”…