Our Lavender Lemonade popcorn is an ode to Seattle summer: A sweet yet tangy lemon caramel, made with real lemon zest, lemon and lavender essences, and balanced with aromatic lavender flowers. It's a little piece of our warm summer days, sitting in the sunshine and sipping lemonade with wafts of lavender coming out of the back garden.          Today we are going to follow one of our cooks, Tim, through the process of creating our Lavender Lemonade flavor from start to finish.      We start by air popping our mushroom kernels, and measuring out the popped 'flakes' into a 20 gallon container. Once the Lavender Lemon sugar base is caramelized to perfection in one of our kettles, we add the air popped corn, and allow it to coat each piece.      Then, we add real lemon zest and whole lavender flowers for bursts of floral...

  Hello, and welcome to the new KuKuRuZa (pronounced "Koo Koo Roo Zah") blog! Kukuruza is the Russian word for maize (corn). So now you know. And maybe it will win you a million dollars on a game show one day (don’t forget who gave you the answer). Here you will find everything you ever wanted to know about popcorn, some things you never knew you wanted to know to know about popcorn, and some other fun things too. If you aren’t already familiar with KuKuRuZa, allow us to introduce ourselves! We are Seattle’s source for handcrafted gourmet popcorn. Locally owned and established in Seattle in 2008, all of our popcorn is made fresh every day (no pre-packaged, preservative-ridden, one year expiration date nonsense here).  Nice to meet you. We always have a revolving door of flavors. This flavor door revolves as fast or as slow as we are able to...