The Food Network's Recipe for Popcorn Salad Is Branded a 'Monstrosity' On 4/12/21 at 7:20 AM EDT The Food Network. While you can buy both sweet and savoury popcorn, one chef, Molly Yeh, has taken it to the next level by adding it to vegetables with a dressing. Cookbook author Yeh explained it's an "iconic midwestern dish", which calls for snap peas, shallots, carrots and celery with a mayonnaise dressing - not forgetting the popcorn. In a video shared on The Food Network's Facebook page, she calls the salad "so midwestern, so quirky and so delicious." Yeh starts by seasoning a giant bowl of popcorn with white cheddar powder, which she calls "magic cheesy dust."