I know the past few posts have been rather monotonous. While learning about corn (and other food) can be boring, I think it's important to know this history because how else would you know that
leftovers from WWII are being used to make your food? Or that
corn makes up a lot of processed foods? It's good to know that
corn has taken over and that the
government should take a lot of the blame. This post is also about corn, but I promise that soon I'll take a break and post about something else.
The corn that
George Naylor, and most other farmers, grow is called number 2 field corn (so distinguished as the "lowest common denominator"- the moisture content is no more than 14% and fewer than 5% exhibit insect damage). While it looks like the regular corn we're used to seeing on the table, it's different. In order to eat it, the kernels must be soaked in water for several hours, and then once you bite into them, you don't taste corn, but lightly corn-flavored starch.
