Finding Joy in a Bowl of Popcorn - No. 178

Snacking into the New Year. How to pop your own. The best tasting popcorn on the shelf, and even a popcorn-inspired soup!

Our popcorn tasting. Photos: Kathleen Osteen

I WAS LISTENING TO DAN PASHMAN on The Sporkful interview historian Jessica B. Harris about her memoir, My Soul Looks Back, and her life in New York City in the early 1970s.

She fell in with a group of black intellectuals including poet Maya Angelou, singer Nina Simone, and writer James Baldwin who on one occasi…