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Click here<\/a> to read the Spanish version.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It glitters in the middle of fairs, circuses or carnivals, sculpted on a stick. The sticky cotton candy<\/strong> has become one of the most coveted nostalgic sweets in the world for its texture, flavor and the hyper-stimulating effect it produces. But before acquiring the usual shape and popular status that we all know, it had a different shape and recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start with the origins<\/strong>: where, when and how did the idea of transforming sugar into such a fun creation come about? The idea of spun sugar is said to have existed since the 15th century in Italy. There, cooks would develop a technique consisting of working on vats of melted sugar, and spinning them by hand using a fork and a kind of handle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the Modern Age<\/strong>, given the high cost of sugar in Europe, spun sugar was far from being a popular sweet: it was reserved for the upper echelons of royalty. Henry III of France, for example, would be presented on his trip to Venice with a tray containing more than 1,000 different pieces of spun sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First cotton candy machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spun sugar would then descend from that exclusive platform to a more earthly plane, entering popular culture thanks to the cotton candy machine. The reality -although it may seem ironic- is that it was a dentist <\/strong>who invented it. And that was William James Morrison<\/strong>, a dentist and inventor from Nashville, Tennessee, known for devising the device that eliminated much of the manual labor associated with pre-spinning sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1897, he and his friend, confectioner John C. Wharton<\/strong>, would team up to make the machine they would christen the ‘electric candy machine,’ which melted sugar in a rotating central chamber. It then used air to blow the melted sugar through a wire grid into the surrounding metal bowl to produce the candy we now know so well.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The machine<\/strong> and the candy<\/strong> it produced -called ‘Fairy Floss’ at the time- were first introduced in America at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair<\/strong>, extended over six months during which the candy was sold in boxes at 25 cents a piece. Such was the success of their debut that Morrison and Wharton sold a total of 65,655 boxes; in turn leaving a lasting legacy in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to read the Spanish version. It glitters in the middle of fairs, circuses or carnivals, sculpted on a stick. The sticky cotton candy has become one of the most coveted nostalgic sweets in the world for its texture, flavor and the hyper-stimulating effect it produces. But before acquiring the usual shape and popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":261199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16002,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reportajes-en","category-sin-categorizar","cat-16002-id","cat-1-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe unusual story of the dentist who invented cotton candy - Tapas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Click here to read the Spanish version. 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