Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. Cape May, New ...

Geddes, N.Y. — The same well-oiled taffy machine has been providing the soundtrack to the New York State Fair for 105 years. And it’s still going. We’ve all walked by the clicking and clacking dozens ...

Not all candy is pulled, but much of it is,” Justice William Howard Taft wrote in the 1921 Supreme Court decision Hildreth v. Mastoras. That high-profile patent dispute over rival improvements to salt ...

Its taffy pull machines work tirelessly, winding away to stretch out salt water taffy 20 pounds at a time, and now that shop could earn a national title from the USA Today reader’s choice contest.

There’s a whirling machine that stops people who pass by it, pulling globs of molten sugar into bites of beach time sweetness. OPB’s “Superabundant” team visited Bruce’s Candy Kitchen in Cannon Beach, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Its taffy pull machines work tirelessly, winding away to stretch out salt water taffy 20 pounds at a time, and now that shop could ...