This sandwich has stood the Midwest test of time. Every August, when the Iowa State Fair rolls around, my Midwestern relatives make the trip from their scattered rural homes to the capital city of Des ...

A Pella native, Graham doesn't particularly enjoy baking and isn't always in the kitchen tinkering with a new recipe. He just loves scotcheroos; they’re a time machine back to his childhood, when a ...

Under Iowa law, misrepresenting margarine as butter is a simple misdemeanor. The penalty for a simple misdemeanor is a fine of at ...

When Mariam Mohamed got the call to be a vendor at the Minnesota State Fair, she couldn’t stop screaming for joy. After immigrating to the state nearly 40 years ago, and building a family in ...

It is the season of state fairs, when you may have a chance to expand your palate or test your gag reflex at the concession stands. (Once you're stuffed, maybe you'll get to admire a butter sculpture.