On Food and Cooking

varieties with variegated kernels. Sweet corn, a popular vegetable in the United States when immature, sto ...

kernel and grain and has the same broad meaning; so “corned” beef is beef cured with gr ...

outer pericarp, or hull. Early corn eaters developed a special pretreatment to ease the removal of the ...

Corn Flavor Corn has a distinctive flavor unlike that of any other grain. Popcorn and other ...

Types of corn. Left to right: Kernels of pop, dent, and sweet corn. Its abundant hard endosperm ...

variety from Peru. The kernels are treated with alkali to remove the hulls, soaked for some hours in warm ...

supermarkets is packaged for microwave cooking. How Popcorn Pops Some flint and dent varieties of ...

“fermenting” technique practiced by the Huron Indians. Here is a challenge for the anthropologist: is the ...

reaches and passes the boiling point, the protein matrix and starch granules soften, and moisture in the granules ...

Different hybrids pop best with different methods. Microwave popcorn bags develop the necessary high temper ...

They’re used to manufacture breakfast cereals, snacks, and beer, and are cooked into a kind of porridge that’ ...

under a greater than July heat. The popped corn is a perfect winter flower, hinting of anemones and housto ...

causes the storage proteins to bond to each other, and breaks apart some of the corn oil into e ...

Tortillas, Tamales, and Corn Chips Tortillas are made by forming finely ground masa into thin sheets, ...

The following cereals are only occasionally encountered in Europe and the United States, though some are very imp ...

the pot of just-thickened polenta, putting it into a low oven (250ºF/130ºC), which heats the bottom and si ...

poor soils. The grains are remarkable for their high protein content, from 16 to 22%, and are popped and al ...

from dark to red and brown to white, with the pigmented varieties said to have more flavor. Teff ...

members of the grass family and so are not true cereals, but their seeds resemble the cereal grains and are ...

China or India relatively recently, around 1,000 years ago, and was brought to northern Europe during the ...