Apparently, this is different than National Popcorn Poppin' Month, which was back in October. That month you had to pop the corn yourself. Today I guess you just have to eat it.
Popcorn.org has a bunch of recipes and popcorn facts, while Kraft has a recipe for Chocolate Popcorn Trail Mix. Simply Recipes tells you how to make what they call Perfect Popcorn. If you want to make popcorn in your microwave (but don't want to just throw in a bag of microwave popcorn), All Recipes shows you how. If you don't feel like making popcorn, you can read about the history of Jiffy Pop.
But I wonder how many people actually pop their own corn at home nowadays. I think a lot of people have gotten used to microwaving a bag of popcorn at home for a snack or at the office. It's quick, it's already in a handy bag, etc. But one of my favorite memories of childhood is getting Jiffy Pop at the store and making it on the stove with mom or my sister. I wonder if kids today (and by kids I mean ones under 12) even know what Jiffy Pop is, even though it's stil sold.
So, your assignment today: if you want to pop some popcorn, go buy some Jiffy Pop. I'm curious to see if it's still as good as I remember.
Seattle is thinking about banning microwave popcorn. The Justice Center has had to be evacuated eight times in the past three years because of burnt popcorn in the microwave making the smoke alarms go off. That means over 400 employees have to be evacuated each time. It is also happening in the city's Municipal Tower.
This isn't a joke: read the memo. If the problem continues, they're going to ban it in downtown buildings.
Last week the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers called for the U.S. government to act to protect workers from exposure to a flavoring agent that has been linked to lung disease. Diacetyl is used as a flavoring in microwave popcorn. Hence the name of the debilitating disease that has left some former food factory workers seeking lung transplants.
A group of doctors joined the two unions in their petition to the U.S. Department of Labor to issue an emergency order to reduce factory exposure to diacetyl. The groups are calling for an emergency order from OSHA since it could take years to develop a standard for exposure.
Later this year the EPA plans to publish a study on whether microwaving popcorn at home releases the chemical. The agency says the study is not designed to measure health risks, but rather whether diacetyl and other chemicals are released.
After finding out that microwave popcorn bags could contain potentially harmful PFOAs, I worried that it would be
some time before I was eating popcorn on a regular basis. It’s a little too much trouble to pop in on the stove
top all the time because of the cleanup required; I’m spoiled by having used the microwave for so many years.
Fortunately, I came across Alton Brown’s tip to use a brown paper bag
to pop popcorn in the microwave. Alton’s directions called for using a stapler to seal the paper bag, but I did
not want to take any chances by putting metal into my microwave. I used Scotch tape to seal my bag. By tossing kernels
in butter or oil and then sealing them in a brown paper bag with a bit of tape, the kernels will pop up just as usual
– with very little mess and a convenient eating container, to boot!
Nachos are a great Super Bowl snack, especially when liberally topped with or dipped in salsas or guacamole. Not all kids can handle
the spice of salsas or the green color of guacamole, which looks too healthy (too green, in other words) to taste
good to them. I know that even after I started to enjoy salsas, at first I would only dip a chip into the sauce,
carefully avoiding the possibility of getting any actual vegetables on my chip. But I loved nachos. Why? The
combination of salt and cheese was simply too good to resist. Instead of making multiple batches of nachos to appease
the kids while you are trying to watch the game, or having them pick through your tray in an attempt to find the
"good" chips, make them their own snack: parmesan popcorn. Just liberally top hot microwave (or air popped)
popcorn with finely shredded or powdered parmesan cheese, with or without a dash of garlic salt, too. The heat of the
popcorn and a touch of butter will make sure the cheese stays firmly in place - and far away from any vegetable-filled
salsas - for the whole game.
It's inevitable- a recipe calls for an herb you know you have in your pantry, or at least you thought so. Next time you're in a pickle, check out this herb substitution chart.
Apparently, this is different than National Popcorn Poppin' Month, which was back in October. That month you had to pop the corn yourself. Today I guess you just have to eat it.
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Last week the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers called for the U.S. government to act to protect workers from exposure to a flavoring agent that has been linked to lung disease. Diacetyl is used as a flavoring in microwave popcorn. Hence the name of the debilitating disease that has left some former food factory workers seeking lung transplants.
After finding out that microwave popcorn bags could contain potentially harmful 
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