Chef Rick Martinez, a James Beard award winner, helped an NPR host recreate a beloved Ecuadorian dish his family ate during ...

If you haven’t been to a state fair lately, you haven’t seen all the weird and wacky things food vendors are frying up. Fried beer. Fried butter balls. Fried jelly beans. Fried Twinkies. Fried Pepsi.

The announcement last month by organizers of the State Fair of Texas that deep-fried butter would be an entry for the category of best food caused a lot of folks to wonder how — and why — the butter ...