On Sunday afternoon, Gourmet Royale’s Deep Fried Seafood Gumbo Balls won Best Dish (savory) and Most Creative at the State Fair of Texas Big Tex Choice Awards. Only once before in the 17-year history ...

It’s a chilly Friday night when we slink into Bar Kroketa, squeezing winter coats and shopping bags past a packed-out crowd sitting up at the bar and along window-side ledges. We’re in the cosier, ...

Deep-fried matzo balls from The Oaks at Menorah Park in DeWitt. This is one of the foods that will be offered at The Oaks' New York State Fair food stand in 2016. It's the first certified kosher food ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There’s a new deep-fried dish following in the time-honored fair food tradition of fried Oreos and Coca-Cola. Deep-fried Starbucks coffee ...

Teams of five to 10 people work shifts 24 hours a day to pre-make 100,000 gumbo balls before the State Fair of Texas. Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer It’s 3 a.m., and about 10 people are working in a ...

Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving for Morning Edition host A Martinez without his grandmother's bolones de verde. The traditional Ecuadorian breakfast dish of deep-fried balls of chopped plantains ...

From a potato hotel to potato ice cream, Idaho knows how to put a spin on their state food mascot. This dessert is actually vanilla ice cream shaped like a potato, rolled in cocoa powder, and topped ...

MOST PEOPLE HAVE a taste or treasured recipe that zip lines them back in time to their mother’s or grandmother’s or favorite aunt’s kitchen. One memory I cherish is of my Sicilian grandmother and ...

From The Cheesecake Factory to BJ’s and Topgolf, these chain restaurants serve the best fried mac and cheese balls with crispy exteriors and creamy centers.