The Story of Corn

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780826335920
ISBN: 0826335926
Item Dimensions:108898164800
Label: University of New Mexico Press
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 367
Publication Date: December 15, 2004
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Studio: University of New Mexico Press

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The Story of Corn is a unique compendium, drawing upon history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the extraordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Corn transformed the way the entire world eats, providing a hardy, inexpensive alternative to rice or wheat and cheap fodder for livestock and finding its way into everything from explosives to embalming fluid.



Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it around the globe. She explores corn's roles as food, fetish, crop, and commodity to those who have planted, consumed, worshiped, processed, and profited from it for seven centuries.



Now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, The Story of Corn, is the winner of a Julia Child Cookbook Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.




"Written in a lively and nontechnical style."--Library Journal




"Fussell has clearly done a good deal of research and a lot of traveling--peering over a precipice at Machu Picchu, descending into a restored ceremonial kiva of the Anasazi people in New Mexico, visiting the sole surviving corn palace from the Midwest boosters--glory days of a century ago."--Kirkus Reviews

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