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The fifth-generation farmer still wakes early each morning to tend to roughly 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and 40 cattle.
Indigenous peoples in South America had been popping corn for millennia, but it didn’t reach the U.S. until the 19th century, when whalers returned from South America with the whole grain in tow.
Its “Country Vegetable Plate” — a choose-your-own adventure of classic sides with biscuits or corn muffins — is proof that pleasure need not center a protein.
From Salon
“I thought we were avoiding corn syrup this summer,” Camille says.
From Literature
The couple bought the 600-year-old former drover's cottage near the remains of a corn mill 10 years ago and carried out major renovation work to the two-room building and surrounding land.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
