Fairs and festivals boast some of the most delectable foods you'll ever find. We're talking corn dogs, funnel cakes, fried everything, and, of course, cotton candy. Made from heated sugar spun in a ...

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, ...

Dentists will routinely tell you to stay away from sugar, but not William Morrison. Everyone’s favourite spun sugar candy treat was actually invented by a dentist in 1897. In collaboration with a ...