A Hawkeye State minister and a basement entrepreneur changed how the world snacks.
Popcorn as we know it may seem like a fairly new concept, but it’s been around since the early 1800s. In fact, a woman named Sarah Bella Dunlop sent a letter to a Missouri newspaper discussing varieties of corn. She advised there was field corn, Indian corn from the Mandan Indians being grown in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and popcorn. She wrote, “Pop-corn as it is vulgarly called; this is very prolific, and bears
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