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 ...

There’s deep fried black olives on a stick, “birthday cake cookie dough” on a stick and an ice cream sandwich on a stick called Grandma Doreen’s Dessert Dog. There’s antipasto on a stick, “loaded ...

Charlie Burrows is obsessed with finding “the next corn dog,” a runaway food hit that becomes an essential stop on any Minnesota State Fairgoer’s list of must-eats. He’s come pretty close. The ...

Dave Terry, the distance coach for the North High School boys and girls track teams, goes to the State Fair all 12 days every year. The past couple of years he has led a street-by-street run through ...

A food-focused tour through the Minnesota State Fair highlights twelve must-try dishes from one of the biggest and most iconic fairs in America.

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Amid the noise of food vendors and the smell of fried dough, a different kind of moment unfolded at the Minnesota State Fair this week: 30 people from around the world raised ...

Tavaris Chillis and Trevor George went on a cross-country training run Wednesday morning on an unusual course: every street of the Minnesota State Fair. Their “water stops” during the 5-mile run ...

Most people know that when it comes to frying things, state fairs are like international waters – they fall under no jurisdiction that can tell them what they can or can’t fry. Freed of such statutes ...