cob
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“He had a piece of space with wet cement so he just put the corn cob in there. And I just love the kind of freedom to make the piece. Anything can go in there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Corn on the cob may not be cheap, nor will corn-fed beef.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
At its simplest, freshly cut corn straight off the cob is perfectly delectable.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
That includes adobe and cob, a material made from clay, sand and straw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
The corn was ripening into roasting ears now, and the coons would come at night and strip the shucks back with their little hands, and gnaw the milky kernels off the cob.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
This supplies the UK with 55 million cobs of corn each year, along with chillis, butternut squash, and also green beans.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
I learned that the distillery makes its bourbon from local Jimmy Red corn, which was two cobs away from extinction before High Wire rescued it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Above, a large skylight is adorned with hundreds of suspended corn cobs, their illuminated forms offering one of the few sources of light in the dark and moody, monochromatic space.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
Ultimately, MacNeish’s team found 23,607 whole or partial maize cobs in five caves in the Tehuacan Valley.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
