America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...
Ice cream cones also took off at that same World's Fair, and Belgian waffles became a better-known treat at New York's fair in 1964. At the same 1893 World's Fair in Chicago that saw orange cider ...