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Article: Think More Kindly of Corn; What It Lacks in Nutrition, It Makes Up on Cleanup
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- The Washington Post
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- August 25, 2009
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There's hardly anything so sublime as a perfectly steamed ear of
fresh summer corn.
But this all-American favorite has taken a bashing lately, at
least in the media. Gourmet magazine recently hosted a lively
discussion about whether corn is worth eating, and a San Francisco
writer named Daniel Patterson has blogged, in an entry called "Fed
Up With Corn," about how today's corn, by virtue of overzealous
cross-breeding, lacks the taste of the ears of his youth.
On a grander scale, corn has been sullied by the controversy
surrounding high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener many fear is bad
for both our bodies and the environment, and has become embroiled in
the politics of farm subsidies and ...