Editor's note: It's National Popcorn Day! We're celebrating by bringing back this tale, first published in 2014, about the history of the beloved snack. Popcorn is a truly ancient snack.

The harvest may be winding down, but the fruits reaped from a Latin-theme garden in the South Bay are providing its cultivators with abundant food for thought as well as for the table. Towering above ...

I had given up on finding Cuitlacoche, a delicacy of the Aztecs that's been virtually untapped this far north. For those who don't know it, Cuitlacoche is corn smut: a mossy gray fungus that grows ...