Photographer Jackie Alpers: “When I saw cotton candy displayed in a homemade tin foil stand at my local county fair, I was instantly happy. So pink! So fluffy! I thought of it as a circus on a stick—in fact, it reminded me of going to ‘The Greatest Show on Earth,’ with my father as a child in the 1970s in Columbus, Ohio. I’ll never forget first seeing the paper cone gathering the cotton candy as it spun in a big vat as we stood in line. I’ve been documenting fair food for a few years now—it’s bigger and much more fun than the food I eat everyday. It evokes a sense of awe and adventure."
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