BUT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, PRETTY MUCH. TO BE HONEST, SUMMER DAY. IT’S A SEA OF SUN SOAKED PEOPLE WAFTING IN WAVES FROM THE SHORE NEARBY TO THE BIGGEST SHOWSTOPPER IN DOWNTOWN YORK. THE WINDOW OUTSIDE ...

When San To Chan successfully defended their PhD thesis, they received a gift of saltwater taffy to celebrate and couldn’t help being intrigued by the taffy’s unusual consistency: somewhere between a ...

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.

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 ...

When most of us see a taffy-pulling machine cranking away on a touristy boardwalk, we think of sweet, sweet sugar. Jean-Luc Thiffeault thinks of sweet, sweet math. As an applied mathematician at the ...