Now is the time for fresh corn! Margaret Visser’s 1986 book, Much Depends on Dinner, a classic on food history, opens with a lengthy chapter on “Corn: Our Mother, Our Life.” She points out that “when sweet corn is picked for boiling, it must be rushed at once to the pot; purists claim that you…
‘Corn: Our Mother, Our Life’
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