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
Serve them with grilled Caesar salad, corn on the cob and something bright and fresh alongside.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some are molded into corn on the cob, celery and rhubarb shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Will it be from eating corn on the cob?
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Within an hour, the cobs will be inside a refrigerated pack-house and chilled down to 0C.
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
Mangelsdorf worked with MacNeish and classified the 23,607 ancient maize cobs.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
