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 ...

Did you know there's a whole wide range of cotton candy flavors out there? From jalapeño to Butterbeer, you can't miss out on ...

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, ...

Ann Ingalls is a former teacher and a prolific writer who has more than 30 children’s books in print or forthcoming. A resident of Kansas City, Ingalls will stop at Left Bank Books this Saturday, June ...

KENMORE, Wash. — A new Kenmore business is making cotton candy creations that elevate the county fair confection to a new level. "I kind of wanted to take the scary clown part out of it, or the ...

If you've ever watched someone make cotton candy being made at the carnival, you know it requires an incredibly fast motor to spin the machine and create the floss-like fibers of the candy. As it ...

Often found at fairgrounds, carnivals, and circuses, sold on sticks and enjoyed by many, the sticky clouds of brightly colored spun sugar that make up cotton candy are familiar to all. The wispy puffs ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - Puffy Cotton Candy, a shop where the silky sugar confection is spun into the shapes of fun animals and characters in front of your eyes, is set to open on Saturday at Freehold ...