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Food & drink
fromBon Appetit
1 week ago

You've Never Seen State Fair Food Like This

State fairs continually reinvent food offerings to reflect changing local tastes and demographics, showcasing immigrant cuisines alongside traditional fair staples.
Food & drink
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair

The Minnesota State Fair mixes evolving multicultural cuisine, nostalgic food traditions, and agricultural displays to draw millions with iconic and novel culinary offerings.
fromConde Nast Traveler
4 weeks ago

Women Who Travel Podcast: Hiking Through Italy, Gilded Age Homes, and Bombastic State Fairs

With a Scandanavian first name, German surname, Midwestern sensibilities, and Korean background, Meinzer seeks out the multi-hyphenate histories of others wherever her travels take her. She returns to the podcast to chat with Lale about her latest adventures-including hiking the ancient Via Francigena which begins in Chaucer's Cantebury and ends in Rome, beholding the magnificence and prestige of Gilded Age estates, and following dairy princess pageantry at the Minnesota State Fair.
Travel
fromFortune
1 month ago

In Minnesota, 'dairy princesses' take home a 90-pound butter bust of their own heads

Thorson, a 20-year-old from the town of Waverly, was crowned as the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday night. And her first official duty as the goodwill ambassador for the state's 1,800 dairy farm families was to bundle up and sit in a rotating glassed-in studio at 40 degrees F (4 Celsius) as fairgoers gathered to watch Kulzer turn a 90-pound (41-kilogram) block of salted butter into art.
Agriculture
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