Corny tale.Soon after Mark Kurlansky's book Cod was a surprise hit, a wave of copycat books descended from the heavens. There is The True Story of Chocolate, Salt: A World History (that one's by Kurlansky, too), The Potato and the prosaically titled Coal. So it's hardly surprising that The Story of Corn (University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. , $24.95) by Betty Fussell just crossed our reviewing desk. The idea of doing a commodity book may not be original, but The Story of Corn is just the kind of coffee table book I like having on my coffee table. Fussell (whose previous books include Crazy for Corn) is a food lecturer who left no kernels unturned in pursuit of her tasseled subject. The reader will learn all about corncob pipes corncob pipe n. A pipe with a bowl made of a dried hollowed corncob. , visit one of the legendary Midwestern corn palaces The Corn Palace is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a popular tourist destination, visited by over 500,000 people each year.[1] It consists of a building that is decorated with murals and designs made from corn and other grains. , understand finally the true nature of fructose fructose (frŭk`tōs), levulose (lĕv`yəlōs'), or fruit sugar, simple sugar found in honey and in the fruit and other parts of plants. , find out how Native Americans ground their staple crop, and delve deeply into the history, mythology mythology [Greek,=the telling of stories], the entire body of myths in a given tradition, and the study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in different ways, distinguishing them from various other forms of popular, often orally and sacred ritual around this humble foodstuff. All this, plus the many pictures are wonderful. |
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