Corn's rarefied place in our hemisphere

The Boston Globe;  September 8, 1992 ;     700+ words ...THE STORY OF CORN By Betty Fussell Knopf, 356 pp., illlustrated...certainly not worthy of an entire book -- but corn is probably more important than almost anything...sustained ancient Indians for centuries. Corn predominated in this hemisphere until the...

HOG-WILD OVER CORN.(facts about corn)

Ranger Rick;  September 1, 1999 ;     553 words ...Feeling corn-fused? Here's an earful of cool corny facts! It may not look like it, but corn really comes from a kind of grass! Scientists aren't sure what the first corn was like, but it may have been a tiny ear less than an inch (2.5 cm) long. Over...

So What's So Bad About Corn?; As Iowa Enjoys a Bumper Crop, Farmers Hear...

The Washington Post;  November 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...-- To say that corn is king around here is to come close to...harvesting an astonishing 14 million acres of corn, which is more than a third of Iowa's surface...bushels. That's about 420 billion ears of corn, or about 225 trillion kernels. A phone...

Oh shucks! Don't miss out on this year's corn season

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Corn on the cob for dinner . . . again?? Around this time of year, there's no need to feel sheepish about serving fresh corn so often. With only a few short months to enjoy it, you may...frozen peas that you can get year-round? When it comes to corn, "maize" remains the chosen term of historians and ...

Corn Reigns Tall As All-American Grain

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 2, 1993 ;     700+ words ...We raise a lot of corn in this country - half the world's crop. Even after exporting 40 percent of that, we still eat a lot of cornflakes, cornbread, corn-on-the-cob, canned corn, popcorn, cornmeal mush and chocolate pudding (thickened with...

saluting the kernel Sweet corn is a mellow yellow delight, whether plain...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Corn-on-the-cob rates as one of life's perfect creations. Golden and beautiful, it's a model of nature's symmetry. Corn fanatic and cookbook author Betty Fussell calls it downright...like a present, like a secret." Fussell wrote "Story of Corn" (Knopf, $30) and "Crazy for Corn" (HarperPerennial, ...

A corn-fed economy: Crop's versatility lays seeds for barn-busters,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 20, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Corn farmer Bill Peterson says he isn't alone on the tractor planting corn this spring. ``You might say everybody is looking over my shoulder.'' Peterson and family members raise about 600 acres of corn on their farm at Mountain Lake, Minn. And the whole world...

Haute corn cuisine

Jerusalem Post;  July 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ...FAYE LEVY Jerusalem Post 07-14-2006 Headline: Haute corn cuisine Byline: FAYE LEVY Edition; Up Front Section: Features...July 14, 2006 -- In my childhood home, my mother served corn boiled on the cob at casual meals. For me, it was a summertime treat. I was completely unaware of how indispensable corn was ...

Sing the Praises of Succulent Sweet Corn

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 28, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Corn and summer go together, proclaim Broadway show-tune lyrics, from "I'm as corny as Kansas in August" to "the corn is as high as an elephant's eye." But more than that, corn is a wonderful indulgence. Get out the butter, put the pot on to boiling and feast on fresh...

Tainted Corn Routinely Mixed, Sold; U.S. Allows Carcinogenic Mold to Be...

The Washington Post;  April 5, 1989 ;     700+ words ...When corn is contaminated with cancer-causing aflatoxin, it can simply be mixed with clean corn and sold anyway, the head of the Federal...grows most abundantly on drought-weakened corn, and Miller said contamination is higher...

New documentary 'King Corn' is a lot more than filler fare

Oakland Tribune;  March 1, 2008 ;     585 words ...OAKLAND -- Corn isn't just for dinner anymore. In fact, it's for...friends and co-producers of the documentary "King Corn," discovered when they spent a year tracing what happened to the corn they planted on their own green acre in Iowa after...

Halt the gold rush to corn fuel.(EDITORIAL)

The Christian Science Monitor;  October 23, 2007 ;     513 words ...Corn. There's nothing like eating it right off the cob at a picnic...muffin. And it's feed for livestock. But there's one thing corn should not be: A solution for global warming or a way to reduce America's dependency on foreign oil. Corn-based ethanol fuel has been growing wildly in recent years...

Johanns: Costly Corn Squeezing Farmers

AP Online;  December 14, 2006 ;     615 words ...WASHINGTON - Soaring corn prices are squeezing meat and milk producers...Johanns said in an interview Thursday. Costly corn has made it more expensive to feed cows...pigs. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has pushed the price of corn above $3...

Corn Is Just the Beginning

The Washington Post;  July 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Grilled Corn, Tomato and Red Onion Salad (Serves 4 to 6 as a side dish...charred flavor from the grill, I strip all the husks from the corn before cooking it. The dressing moistens the corn, so there's no worry about it becoming dry. 4 medium ears...

Corn off the Cob

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Corn off the Cob In salads or salsas, with tomatoes or potatoes...to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, August 11, 2002 We are a corn-fed nation. This staple crop -- indigenous to the western...during its brief appearance on center stage. Modern sweet corn was hybridized from field corn and flint or Indian ...