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Friday, September 28, 2007

What the Fluff?


Marshmallow Fluff is celebrating its 90th anniversary. (Does the stuff ever go bad?) In 1917, according to the Fluff website, Somerville resident Archibald Query starting making the sweet goo in his kitchen and selling it door to door. (He later sold the formula to a couple of business partners who opened a factory in Lynn. Click here for more history.)

Apparently Query concocted his recipe in Union Square, and so tomorrow from 4-7 p.m. the organization Union Square Main Streets is throwing a giant Fluff fete. (Sunday's the rain date.)

Festivities take place in Union Square Plaza. They include:

- A cooking contest (recipes must incorporate Fluff, of course) judged by Renee McLeod of Petsi Pies, Alex Whitmore of Taza Chocolate, Suzanne Lombardi of Tiny Trapeze Confections, and Margaret Gray, grand-niece of Query himself.

- Games, performances, storytelling, and food.

- The re-creation of the Prospect Hill tower in Fluff and cereal.

You'd have to be a Fluffer nutter to miss it.

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