Article: FIRST COURSE; Making the rounds of State Fair feastings

What does the food editor eat when she goes to State Fair?

Arggh, do I have to tell you?

First of all, I'm a creature of habit. Got my favorites, got my route, gotta have each food at least once during the run of the fair.

Second, as much as I personally promote the eating of seven to nine vegetables a day and whole-grain everything, all health concerns get checked at the gate when I get to the fairgrounds.

Not that all the foods I choose to eat are unhealthy. But, well, what's actually in a corn dog, anyway?

My cravings usually lead me first to a food that is, in fact, nutritious: the humble potato. The baked potatoes sold in the Wisconsin Products Pavilion by the Wisconsin Potato and ...

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