Cotton candy, county fairs, and the last gasp of summer
Tomorrow is National Cotton Candy Day. The sticky, spun-sugar confection is closely associated with carnivals, the circus, festivals and outdoor fairs, like next week’s Johnson County Fair. It runs August 7 through 11 at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Gardner, Kansas. I can hardly wait to go wild in that fabulous culinary collection of corn dogs, greasy tacos and deep-fried everything.
Because one county fair is never enough, I want to be sure to remember all of the upcoming outdoor festivities, like the Douglas County Fair in nearby Lawrence (directions to the Fairgrounds are here) that continues today — the judging of the 4-H Foods and Food Preservation is from 2 to 7 p.m. — through Saturday, August 4, at 10 p.m. The carnival portion of the fair opens on Wednesday.
