But, for some crops like maize, the tedious task of manually shelling the cobs can quickly dilute that joy, especially for small scale farmers who cannot afford a tractor-powered shelling machine.

It couldn't just be boiled and eaten straight away as it is today. Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill. It needed to be cooked in a ...

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to ... placed in a shaft-tomb and walled in alive. Chicha, a maize alcohol, was fed to her both before and after her death.

Some studies even reference fossilized pollen grains of maize in drill cores of lake sediment beneath ... 6 ears of fresh sweet corn on the cob 1/2 cup yellow corn meal or corn flour (masa) Salt and ...