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Posts tagged “popcorn”

College Eating: How To Make Better Microwave Popcorn

Microwave popcorn is a college dorm staple – when your kitchen is limited to a microwave and a mini fridge, what choice do you have? But did you know there's a way to make it that's healthier, tas...

Summer Pairing: Ceviche with Popcorn

Ceviche is a great food for summer. It requires very little if any cooking, and it's full of bright flavors and fresh colors. We ate some shrimp ceviche in a restaurant a couple of years ago that h...

Recipe: Caramel Popcorn

As kids, my brother and I used to beg our mother to make caramel popcorn. We loved melting down the hot caramel topping and then taking turns shaking the brown paper bag as hard as we could until each...

Eating Light: Homemade Popcorn with Olive Oil

We grew up in a popcorn-eating family. Every movie night, every game day, and every holiday evening, there was popcorn on the coffee table. We rarely ate microwave popcorn, so the smell of hot canola ...

Good Quote: Thoreau on Popcorn

With more snow in the forecast for much of the east coast, this quote from Henry David Thoreau feels quite timely! I have been popping corn tonight, which is only a more rapid blossoming of the seed ...

Holiday Tip: Cushion Your Packages With Popcorn

As you prepare to pack and ship fragile gifts to your loved ones for the holidays, here's a sustainable alternative to bubble wrap and foam peanuts; popcorn! Economical, sustainable, and efficient, p...

Fall Snacking Recipe: Peanut Butter Popcorn

Maybe it's the college football parties, the trick-or-treating, or the endless grazing before Thanksgiving dinner, but snacks and fall just seem to go together. Popcorn is a very old harvest snack, pr...

Food Science: How Popcorn Pops

Morning, noon, or night, popcorn is definitely one of our all-time favorite snacks. It seems impossible that one tiny kernel can contain so much deliciousness! In fact, how does popcorn work? Read on...