About 1,500 B.C., cooks in coastal Guatemala figured out that cooking dried corn in alkali water ... dough than unprocessed ground corn. More recently, food scientists have found that this process ...

Corn is a staple food throughout the world ... It starts with whole, dried corn kernels that are then soaked in an alkaline ...

Dried corn kernels are readily available from most supermarkets. Commercially-produced ready-to-cook popcorn kernels are also available, sealed in bags that you just put in the microwave.