I am Alvin Costa and I started Costa’s Finest Kettle Corn with my wife Hilda and my two sons Lance and Logan.

I have always loved popcorn. In 2009 on a camping trip at Pismo on the beach, I had this great idea of popping popcorn over the fire. I had everyone sit around the fire and handed them all a bowl. I proceeded to pop popcorn over the fire in an open frying disk. As the popcorn started to pop everyone started to get up off their seats and run. The popcorn was hot and flying everywhere. We all got a great laugh and some of us still have the burn marks.

The following year on our yearly camping trip in Pismo, I experimented with a huge pot over a burner…