Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. Cape May, New ...

Not all candy is pulled, but much of it is,” Justice William Howard Taft wrote in the 1921 Supreme Court decision Hildreth v. Mastoras. That high-profile patent dispute over rival improvements to salt ...

BROCKTON — At Hill-Top Candy here, a team makes 75,000 pieces of salt water taffy a day. With its bright colors, simple paper wrapping, and old-fashioned box, the confection is an American classic.