Admit it. As good as you might try to be, eating three square meals a day, there are times, usually around four o’clock on a lazy weekend afternoon, when your stomach starts a-churning. (At least if you’re anything like me it does.) You get that hollow, hungry feeling, and you know that a bag of carrot sticks, healthy though they may be, will just not answer the rumbling. It’s time for a proper snack, one that is salty, crunchy, and more than a bit decadent.
Popcorn is just the thing. And when popped in an air popper (didn’t everyone have one of those in college?) it can really be almost healthy…and definitely boring. But this is Nosheteria, not some ascetic kitchen, and I’ve been out of college for quite some time, so leave it to me to bring popcorn from the healthy to the sublime. [...]
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