Cotton candy is a favorite carnival snack. The melt-in-your-mouth treat has even been used as a beverage garnish. While cotton candy is popularly served at fairs and festivals, you can also make the ...

Long associated with childhood and county fairs, the food has found its place among a new generation of experimental chefs. By Lauren Joseph Photographs by Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi The phrase “melt ...

Summer is the season of state fairs, and with state fairs comes fair food, the inevitable accompaniment to the Ferris wheel, the Scrambler, the bumper cars, and the carousel. I’m talking corn dogs, ...

A dentist and a candy maker walk into a fair. That's not the beginning of a joke — it's a historical fact. In 1904, dentist William Morrison and candy maker John C. Wharton of Nashville, Tennessee, ...