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Tables of Contents for Popped Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xi
 
Preface
xiii
 
Acknowledgments
xix
 
PART I: HISTORY
1
164
The Pop Heard 'Round the Americas
3
21
Botanical Maize
5
3
Archaeological Maize
8
6
Historical Maize
14
3
Pops Heard 'Round the World
17
1
Popcorn in North America
18
6
The Invention of Popcorn
24
14
Wire-over-the-Fire Corn Poppers
27
4
Literary Corn
31
2
Why Does Popcorn Pop?
33
3
The Healthy Snack
36
2
Popcorn Children
38
14
Holiday Corn
39
4
Popcorn Boys
43
1
Popcorn Parties
44
2
Twentieth-Century Popcorn Children
46
4
Popcorn Children Revisited
50
2
Pop Cookery
52
16
Popcorn Pudding and Flour
55
2
Popcorn as a Breakfast Cereal
57
2
Popcorn Balls
59
3
Popcorn Cakes
62
1
Popcorn Crisps and Crispettes
63
1
Popcorn Candy
64
1
Soups, Salads, and Entrees
65
3
Early Pop Pros
68
31
Growers
72
2
Processors
74
7
Vendors
81
2
Prepared Popcorn Products
83
7
Commercial Poppers
90
7
The Invention of Snack Food
97
2
The Popcorn Boom
99
25
Motion Pictures
99
4
Radio
103
3
Popcorn Technology and Breeding
106
2
Popping through World War II
108
3
After the War
111
6
A Global Business
117
2
The Heyday of Movie Popcorn
119
2
Television
121
3
Pop Convenience
124
14
TV Time Popcorn
125
1
Jiffy Pop
126
2
Microwave Popcorn
128
10
Pop Mania
138
19
The Popcorn King
138
6
Gourmet Microwave Popcorn
144
1
Popcorn Boutiques
145
2
Popcorn Celebrations
147
2
The Prepopped Surge
149
1
Pop Food Revival
150
3
Popping Devices
153
2
Odds and Ends
155
2
The End of Popcorn?
157
8
A Healthy Snack?
157
3
The Popcorn Processor's Shuffle
160
1
Research and Breeding
161
1
New Technologies
162
1
The Global Marketplace
162
3
PART II: HISTORICAL RECIPES
165
52
Almond Nougat
168
1
Balls
168
8
Bars or Squares
176
2
Best Evers
178
1
Biscuits
179
1
Bricks
179
1
Brittle
179
1
Cakes
180
2
Canapes
182
1
Candy
183
2
Cereal
185
1
Cheese and Nuts
186
1
Chocolate-Covered Popcorn
186
1
Cookies
187
1
Corn-Nut Loaf
188
1
Cornlets, Kornettes, and Dusky Maidens
188
1
Cracker Jack
189
2
Crisps and Crispettes
191
3
Custard
194
1
Cutlet
194
1
Dainties
194
1
Dates Stuffed with Popcorn
195
1
Dressing
195
1
Flake
195
1
Fritters
196
1
Fudge
196
1
Hash
197
1
Hunky-Dories
197
1
Ice Cream
198
1
Lace
199
1
Macaroons
199
1
Marguerites
200
1
Mock Violets
201
1
Muffins
201
1
Nests
201
1
Nuggets
201
1
Omelets
202
1
Pie
202
1
Popcorn and Apples
203
1
Popcorn and Bacon
203
1
Popcorn and Macaroni
203
1
Popcorn and Raisins
203
1
Popcorn and Vegetables
204
1
Popping Corn (Directions)
204
1
Puddings
205
3
Roast
208
1
Rolls
208
1
Salads
209
1
Sandwiches
209
2
Scrapple
211
1
Smacks
211
1
Soups and Accompaniments
211
2
Stuffings
213
1
Sugared Popcorn
213
1
Tac-Tac
214
1
Taffy
214
1
Trifle
215
1
Wafers
215
2
Notes
217
32
Select Bibliography and Resources
249
6
General Works on Snack Food
249
1
General Works on Maize
249
1
Popcorn Books, Cookbooks, and Pamphlets
249
1
Historical Catalogs and Advertising Brochures
250
1
Agricultural Bulletins, Chapters, Circulars, and Journal Articles
251
2
Children's Popcorn Books
253
1
Selected Commercial Popcorn Businesses
253
1
Other Resources
254
1
Index
255