1, the history of popcorn in Europe
Popcorn is an ancient puffed food, hundreds of years ago, "necklace" gluttony as early as the European immigrants migrated into this "New World" before, living on this continent, the Indians will be prevailed in eating popcorn. Columbus returned to Europe, had depicted to the people of the "New World" on the Indian children with popcorn strung into necklaces on the street to sell the vivid scene.
It was also the Indians who taught the European settlers how to plant and roast corn. A historian has also found popcorn in caves in New Mexico that was eaten by ancient Native Americans 5,000 years ago, but due to the limitations of the "process" at the time, it was far less crunchy than contemporary popcorn.
Modern inventors have designed an electric pot for popcorn-loving families, which is said to be able to pop a large pot of cornflakes in just 10 minutes. Many local television stations in the United States also often broadcast how to pop popcorn common sense, but also introduced a variety of new flavors of popcorn method.
2, popcorn in China's history
Originally in China during the Song Dynasty popcorn, then the poet Fan Chengda in his "Stone Lake Collection" has been mentioned on the first day of the festival of Wuzhong popping Valley custom, why is the popcorn called "Marco Polo"? Popcorn is thought to imitate the sound of popping grain, because the local dialect of the sound of thunder called "Marco Polo". The Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Yi in his "eaves exposure miscellany" recorded a "popping Marco Polo poem",
Poet's popcorn is not only written in a very beautiful, but also overflowing with the interest of life. Fan Chengda in the "Wu County Zhi - Customs" recorded in the new year when the Song people use popcorn to know the luck of the year, the girls use this divination of their own life events. The Song people added culture to food to make it have a richer connotation. Popcorn is crunchy and easy to digest, and can be used as a tasty daily snack.
The invention of popcorn reflects the richness and colorfulness of the Chinese diet, which has a deeper meaning, that is, the creation of a food processing puffed food. Explain the ancient Chinese food processing is more than just simple heating of food for cooked, but through the physical principle of high temperature and high pressure to change the state of food taste, this processing method is the modern emerging puffed food.
This processing makes the ordinary and mouth food into a tasty and distinctive food snacks, it can be said that thousands of years ago, popcorn is a variety of modern puffed food snacks ancestor of the various kinds of snacks.
Expanded Information: Popcorn production principle: Early popcorn in the processing, is the corn (many grains and miscellaneous can be classified) placed in a special container of heating, so that the corn is in a high-temperature, high-pressure state, the pot of the The temperature inside the pot rises continuously, and the pressure of the gas inside the pot also rises. The temperature inside the pot rises, and the pressure of the gas inside the pot increases. Then "bang" a loud bang, the machine lid was opened, the corn was suddenly released at room temperature and pressure, the gas inside the pot rapidly expanding, the pressure is quickly reduced, make the difference between inside and outside the corn kernel pressure, resulting in corn kernels of high-pressure water vapor is also rapid expansion, instantaneous bursting of the corn kernels, that is, into the popcorn, and at the same time, the internal structure and nature of the corn will occur. The internal structure and properties will change. Most of the popcorn is basically popped by popping corn after a simple heating popcorn, processing containers have long been not the early "converter", and therefore avoid the hazards of lead. Baidu Encyclopedia - Popcorn (puffed food)