Corn Recipes – Alphabet of Vegetables
IN A RUSH? Prefer Another Vegetable? Skip Straight to the Recipes or Switch to the A-Z of Vegetables . CORN: THE BASICS Also called Sweet Corn, Sweetcorn, Sugar Corn, Maize [maze], Miellie [mee-lee] and Maellie. SEASON The corn season is "summer". Sweet corn becomes less sweet about three days after picking, so the fresher the better. In the grocery store, watch for ears still in their husks with glossy, not dry silk. But for freshness, a farmers market or vegetable stand with locally grown, just-picked corn is a better bet for really good corn. Farmers call the first most-tender ears of corn "green corn". HISTORY Along with tomatoes, chiles and potatoes, corn originated in the Americas. The word maize means "our life" and the Pueblo people honored corn as the fifth element: earth and air, fire and water, and corn! Modern sweet corn was developed at the turn of the 19th century but only became available to home gardeners in the 1920s. CORN ANAT