Poppin' Corn for Thousands of Years

Growing up, my mother used popcorn to garnish cream of tomato soup with a few popped kernels on top "to make it pretty." I thought everbody did that. All corn can be popped—yet only certain varieties that are small, have a hard outer shell, and white or yellow kernels of the flint type are deemed best. The moisture within must be heated to its pressure point so it can burst.

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