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Hi Katherine! Tell us a bit about yourself and how Crackle Corn came to be. I worked in the Melbourne hospitality industry for more than a decade. Then, I decided I didn’t want to work another day in my life for another person, so I quit my job in a blaze of glory. I pulled out my recipe for salted-caramel popcorn and started tweaking it. I added cinnamon in one batch and chilli in another. I got crazier and crazier with my ingredients until I ended up with 17 different flavours of popcorn. I knew I was onto something.

Was it hard making the transition from chef

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