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    Popcorn!
    Popcorn!
    Popcorn!
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    Popcorn!

    By Frances Giedt

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    Popcorn may be America's favorite snack food. Preserved cobs of popcorn thousands of years old have been found in Peru, Mexico, and the American Southwest. Memories are made of popcorn balls at Halloween and stringing popcorn to decorate the Christmas tree. Today, sitting through a movie without a bag of crunchy kernels is almost unthinkable.

    Popcorn is the ideal snack. Eaten without oil or butter, it's a skinny 27 calories per cup. Since it's a whole grain with a high fiber content, it has a well-deserved recommendation from both the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. Even the American Dental Association lists it as a wholesome snack! (Now, don't you feel virtuous?)

    But most of all, popcorn is fun to eat. Combined with some spices and herbs, it rivals the most expensive off-the-shelf snack but costs just pennies to make. Make it spicy for a sophisticated treat, or sweet to satisfy the kid in you.

    In Popcorn, award-winning author Frances Towner Giedt starts with the basics of how to make terrific popcorn, then shows you how to dress it up. Whether your taste runs to sweet or spicy, low-fat or fruity, you'll find more than 50 recipes here to excite, delight, and satisfy your urge for popcorn snacking
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9781476739045
    Popcorn!
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    Frances Giedt

    Frances Towner Giedt is a coauthor of The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of an IACP and James Beard Award; The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook; The Joslin Diabetes Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook; The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook, Low-Carb Quick & Easy, and Low-Carb Slow & Easy. She is a food consultant and author of several other cookbooks. She lives near Dallas, Texas.

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      Popcorn! - Frances Giedt

      INTRODUCTION

      A Bowl of Popped Corn

      An all-American favorite, popcorn—the only variety of corn that pops—is hardly a recent discovery. Archaeologists excavating in Peru, Mexico, and the American Southwest have unearthed preserved cobs of popcorn dating back thousands of years. To the early Native Americans, popcorn was a currency of trade and friendship, a symbol of hospitality and fertility. Columbus recorded that natives in the West Indies sold popcorn to his crew.

      By the time the colonists arrived on these shores, Native Americans were growing more than 700 varieties of popcorn, although the corn brought to the first Thanksgiving was more likely parched flint corn (the multicolored corn that’s often used for decoration), rather than the legendary deerskin bag of popcorn.

      Since those early days, we’ve been sold on popcorn. Every red-blooded moviegoer in America knows the hand-to-mouth motion of popcorn munching. Grown-ups and kids alike hold dear the memory of spending winter evenings in front of a glowing fireplace with a giant bowl of freshly popped corn. Popcorn feeds the soul and calms the nerves—it is undoubtedly the grain of the people.

      Now, by popular demand, Popcorn! takes that plain movie theater popcorn into the new-age nineties, perhaps even into the millennium.

      A Healthy Choice

      Eaten plain without any oil or butter, popcorn is a skinny 27 calories per cup. Since it’s a whole grain cereal with high fiber content, popcorn has received well-earned recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. It’s included on the American Dental Association’s list of wholesome sugar-free snacks, and both the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association allow popcorn as a bread exchange for those on special diets. Gram for gram, popcorn has more protein, phosphorus, iron, and vitamin A than ice cream or crackers.

      Nutritionally, air-popped popcorn, made without oil or salt, is the best choice. Otherwise, make the popcorn with a popper which calls for only one teaspoon of oil and make that oil a heart-healthy polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oil such as canola or safflower. Go easy on the salt.

      To date, all prepackaged microwave popcorn uses saturated fat and a substantial amount of salt. In the summer of 1994, the Center for Science in the Public Interest shocked movie theatergoers when it revealed that most movie theaters were cooking their popcorn in coconut oil, an oil whose capacity to raise blood cholesterol levels exceeds that of butterfat, beef tallow, and lard. This prompted many movie theater chains to switch to canola oil, which has the lowest saturated fat content of all cooking oils.

      Health professionals have been debating the healthfulness of substituting margarine for butter for decades. This dilemma has once again captured public interest with new medical studies that reveal that margarine’s trans fatty acids, produced by partially hydrogenating vegetable fat (a process to change liquid vegetable oil to a solid with the texture of butter), are related to high levels of LDL cholesterol and lower levels of HDL cholesterol. They are also suspected to enhance deposits of fat in the arteries and actually interfere with the metabolism of fat. But since butter is a saturated fat, many health professionals advise against cooking with it since it elevates blood cholesterol that can lead to cardiovascular disease. However, butter is a natural product, made without additives. The role of butter or margarine in popcorn is that of adding flavor and helping the seasonings to adhere to the kernels.

      If you are on a restricted diet, always follow the

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