We sometimes pop corn for popcorn at home, but it just ain’t the same as what a fine popcorn shop can make. Especially one of the finest popcorn shops we’ve ever visited: KuKuRuZa in downtown Seattle’s historic Kress Building. It helps that they’ve got a $25,000 machine (air-popped, without added oil) that’s pretty much continually popping high-quality, butterfly and mushroom (the shape, not the taste) varieties of corn at about 450 degrees. And that Popcorn Chef Robert Hicks is continually creating new flavor combinations. more ›