Oh Shucks! Don't Miss Out On This Year's Corn Season

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 25, 2004

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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 as well take advantage while the season lasts. Why settle for carrot sticks or frozen peas that you can get year- round?

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Oh Shucks! Don't Miss Out On This Year's Corn Season

When it comes to corn, "maize" remains the chosen term of historians and botanists. According to "The Gourmet Atlas," the term "corn" refers to the grain most common in a given region, such as wheat in England, oats in Ireland or maize in America. That answers the question of how the Pharaoh of Egypt dreamed about seven fat ears of corn in the Bible, if corn as we know it is native to America and thus wouldn't have been around in ancient Egyp...

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