Beautiful corn : America's original grain from seed to plate /
Boutard weaves together corn's contribution to our culture, its distinctive biology and the practical information needed to grow and enjoy it at home. He advocates a return to the nourishing whole grain that built America, in place of today's genetically modified crops processed by industr...
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Gabriola Island, B.C. :
New Society Publishers,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Falling for corn
- The origins of corn
- Corn emigrates
- The kernel, corn's fruit
- Spring planning and choosing seed
- Corn is food from flower to flour
- Popcorn and flint corn
- Dent corn and flour corn
- Breaking ground
- Growth of the corn plant
- Flowering of the corn plant
- The cornfield
- Harvest and storage
- Preparing grain corn for cooking
- Onto the plate
- Producing your own corn seed
- Soon the snow flies.