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High as an elephant's eye

Corn, the other white meat . . .

One summer a few years ago I went to a party in rural Sonoma at which the primary activity was the eating of corn. A friend had purchased a small spread just outside Petaluma where he and his family not only raised peacocks and dried gourds and bottled their own wine, they nurtured an eighth of an acre's worth of cornstalks that each midsummer produced ears and ears of golden maize. ("Maize" is what the rest of the world calls American corn; to the rest of the world, "corn" is a generic term for the local cereal crop. Keats's homesick maiden standing "amid the alien corn" isn't, therefore, knee-deep in ears and kernels, she simply misses the grain of her ...

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