Pull the husks back from each ear of corn, leaving them attached to the stem. Holding an ear of corn in one hand, gather the husk together so that it covers the stem, forming a sort of handle ...

Learn to make these lightly sweet Tamales de Elote with a corn dough at Food & Wine.

Corn husk seat weaving is a skill of the past, but Island Farm in Manteo is bringing the craft back to life with expert weaver David Russell.

Farmers across the Midwest harvest billions of bushels of corn nowadays using giant machines called combines. But a contest keeps a more primitive corn-picking technique alive: human hands.

A video making the rounds of social networking sites shows corn being cooked in the husk, then popped out, free of silk, when the bottom of the cob, husk and all, is sliced off.