The Los Alamitos area will explore a Popping Through the History of Popcorn event at a local library this April.
The Los Alamitos-Rossmoor Library will host Maite Gomez-Rejón from ArtBites to give the lecture, which also includes hands-on activities where participants can make their own popcorn snacks to take home.
Gomez-Rejón is a cook, historian, and writer, whose bona fides include being a college-level educator and working for the education departments of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Today, popcorn is known as a movie-theater staple. However, it has a winding history from its early years as a garland worn by Aztec girls in remembrance of the rain god Tlaloc to the invention of the popcorn machine, making it a global phenomenon.
The 90-minute class will explore everything from the very first people who first popped corn to early recipes and popcorn's proliferation in movie theaters and carnivals around the world.
The free event has a limit of 25 participants, with registration beginning on March 30. Food education events like this may choose to use printing services to create recipe cards, supply lists and audience programs.
Popping Through the History of Popcorn is happening on Saturday, April 4 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm at the Los Alamitos Rossmoor Library at 12700 Montecito Rd in Seal Beach.
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