Save the Fire Pits of San Diego Marshmallow roasters throughout California are rallying to help save the fire pits of San Diego. Here is a good website with information and more things to do  http://www.savethefirepits.com/ We hope you'll also join the Save the Fire Pits FaceBook cause. The National Marshmallow Roasters Institute will donate a portion of the sales of our products to save the fire pits! Buy a mug or tee-shirt, clock or tote bag at our NMRI store to show your pride in marshmallow roasting, and we can help save the fire pits. $3 of every $5 NMRI membership in 2010 will go to save the fire pits when you join the NMRI. NMRI Quiver The president's Smorstix Quiver, just right for the roasts on the beaches in San Diego, is shown below. It holds as many roasting sticks as I need. I'll be wearing it as I pass out and collect skewers at our Marshmallow Roasts.
	Finally! A urinal built for two on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. www.urinal.net These really help when we get those crowds at our San Francisco Roasts. Won't you join us?

Fluff Festival Pictures

It was a beautiful day in Somervillle, MA. Check out these pictures of the Fluff Festival 2009 by Linda Gritz

 Mallow Factor Newsletter

 S'mores Cupcakes Reviewed
    (Full review on our Perfect Roast page)

While I waited at the bakery counter at Whole Foods to pick up my order for a dozen S'mores cupcakes, I perused the fine selection of other cupcake varieties. I also sampled the freshly baked donuts provided on the sampling plate. They brought out the box containing my cupcakes and they looked as scrumptious as the ones in the display case. So much so that I asked them to add three more to my order. I wanted to make sure there were enough for all the board members.

S'mores Cupcakes from Whole Foods bakery and Dreyer's S'mores ice cream to boot!

Read the Full Review on our Perfect Roast Page!

Mallow Color Continuum 

The Roasted Mallow Color Continuum was formally approved in Paris, August 16th, 2009 by the European Order of the Mallow and the President, NMRI.

CAUTION

The NMRI VP, Research & Development cautions all judges that any and all mallows with a color lighter than Pale yellow-green shall be judged 'unroasted'. Further, any mallow darker than Brown shall be declared 'burnt'.

Update: Annual Bexley Ohio Chapter Roast - June 19th was a roasting success!

Yes. Ken Grace once again hosted the sanctioned NMRI event in Bexley Ohio. He's our Vice-President, Research and Development at the Institute. As usual this was a potluck, campout and of course, Marshmallow Roast!

Check out our other upcoming NMRI sanctioned roasts, festivals, and events on the Calendar of Events. As you can see on our calendar, June and July are pretty much filled with events. The free days turn out to be travel days for us.

A perfectly roasted mallow!

We like this photo posted by Elizabeth at Flikr of a mallow just waiting to be roasted. From their Cape Cod roast. What a beautiful place to roast! I think of this awesome photo as "Anticipation".
Marshmallow - Skewer - Fire  /  Ready - Set - Go!

Featured Festival
The Ligonier Marshmallow Festival. September 4 - 7, 2009 in Ligonier, Indiana on Main Street. This three-day festival features crafts, amusement rides, cruise in car show, live entertainment, games, food, music, orchestra and parades, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.  Free admission. 
Contact info: Larry Stahly at 260-894-4159 stahly@ligtel.com or Tammy Deel 260-215-1982, tdeel@ligtel.com

Man muss die feste Feiern wie sie fallen!
(You must celebrate the festivals as they come! or - Any excuse to Party!)
We just love those Germans and their idiomatic expressions.

Alps Roast

The roast in the Italian Alps was a bit soggy. But we had a lot of fun. Just a bit too much snow for that late in May. But the late season skiing made up for the lack of roasting. We did get in a couple good roasts and introduced S'mores to the Italians, French and Germans skiing with us for the week.

The Poets' Roast was Awesome! Just down the road from one of our favorite places in the world, the Frost farm in Derry, NH. Good poetry, mending wall basics, lightning bug chasing, and, marshmallow roasting down the road less traveled made for a great week to refresh our lives! That last week in June made for some hot, humid, and great lightning bug weather. We'll do this again next year!

Want to Roast better?

Let us show you how.

Our professional roasters from all over the world will help you learn the techniques to become one of the elite members of your local chapter of the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute (NMRI). Mentoring is available. We will "train the trainer" (for lack of a better cliché). So you can lead yourself and your teams to fun and profitability. And as always, perfect roasting is our ultimate goal! Remember the four T's when judging the roasted mallows (Tint, Texture, Toastability, and Taste). See the results of our 4-T Roast Test here.

What is the NMRI Virtual Think Tank?

We like to ponder most anything mallow and attend Marshmallow festivities around the world. We like the Puff Girls' confections (See The Perfect Roast page) and the annual Ligonier Indiana Marshmallow Festival. The Munich Mallowfest is scheduled to be visited during our annual sojourn to the Oktoberfest this September in Germany!

Roast the Mallow!

Whether in Paris (rôtissoires des Guimauves!) or Munich  (Mäusespeck Grillen!) or sunny Santa Barbara (Roast the Mallow!), we don't just sit around the camp fire philosophizing about roasting marshmallows, or wishing we had some S'mores... NO!  We Roast the Mallow! And we do it around the world...Virtually... with YOU ... our extended teams of roasters.

And for the perfect roast, Visit our Perfect Roast page where you'll find information and a link to Smorstix, the official skewers of the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute. And the skewer preferred by roasters at the fire pits at Northstar Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, CA.

Want more information about the NMR Institute or membership, or just want to say Hi? 

Email:  MisterMallow@NMRInstitute.com

Newest roasting judges
Pierre LeFleur, from Lyon France, is our latest member. We hope to see him at the Paris NMR Institute for our annual Champagne and Mallow festival on the Champs Elysee.

Nels Ingebretson, from Porsgrunn Norway, is our previous latest member. We hope to see him at the Childrens Day Roast. Childrens Day is Scandinavia's biggest one-day event for children, Parades, entertainment for children. (Ooooh, we love Porsgrunn pottery!)

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Disclaimer:  We take no responsibility for burned or dropped marshmallows, blistered fingers or tongues, ants in sleeping bags, lost (or confiscated) skewers at airports, stomach aches, wet wood, rain, acts of God that ruin your NMRI roasts, or the fickleness of the American voter to elect anyone competent to positions above dog-catcher. All parts of this site may be printed, reproduced, plagiarized by any means, other than by typewriter (what's that???), with the stone-chiseled permission of Mister Mallow at the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute.

No Very few fur-bearing animals were harmed during the creation of this web site (There was a gerbil that got caught in a bag of marshmallows in San Francisco, and died eating his way out (what a pleasant way to go, though). Allergy alert: Marshmallows used in competition do contain gelatin, but we doubt they will make you gravely or debilitatingly ill, unless you are a level 4 or 5 Vegan. Not recommended for persons with sugar-restricted diets.

Marshmallows may cause irritability, sleeplessness or implosive constipation (ouch!) after prolonged consumption. Contents under pressure when heated over open flame. BHT added to preserve freshness (Mmmm...BHT).

Caution: Marshmallows have recently been found to cause some laboratory rats to rip through their cages, fly across the room and brutally murder innocent rhesus monkeys at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Shake monkeys well before using.

Please use a handsfree device for your cell phone while roasting. Marshmallows are not to be combined with other radioisotopes except under the advice of an official NMRI Roasting Judge or our staff cellular and molecular biologist at the institute. Avoid prolonged exposure to campfires.

The truth is out there. Use no hooks without proper bait. Eight is your lucky number. This site not intended for use by Republicans, Democrats or anyone under the age of 21. If you are not responsible enough and not allowed to drink until age 21, you should not be allowed to join the Army or roast marshmallows. Please refrain from roasting marshmallows without proper NMRI supervision.

NMRI literature printed on recycled pre-deceased trees that were determined to have fallen of their own free will (without making a sound in the forest). Level 5 Vegans (those who eat nothing that casts a shadow) are awarded honorary membership, when and if they ever come down from tree-sitting in the Redwood Trees in Northern California.

Disputes between roasters will be mediated by the International Order of the Mallow in Paris France during the NMRI Festival of the Mallow, on the Champs Elysee at Cafe Etats Unis, the third Wednesday in June in Leap years at midnight.... Wenn Gott will, natürlich!