RecipeMuncher

Fans of Michael Pollan are familiar with the phrase “corn people“: Descendants of the Maya living in Mexico still sometimes refer to themselves as “the corn people.” The phrase is not intended as metaphor. Rather, it’s meant to acknowledge their abiding dependence on this miraculous grass, the staple of their diet for almost 9,000 years. For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in corn, not to think of h (...)