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Posted: 06 Jul 2022

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Corn colour-fest

Corn colour-fest

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 Dinesh
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To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety of Mexican maize is startling. Red, blue, yellow, orange, black, pink, purple, creamy white, multicolored -- the jumble of colors in Mesoamerican maize reflects the region’s jumble of cultures and ecological zones. One place may have maize with cobs the size of baby’s hand and little red kernels no bigger than grains of rice that turn into tiny puffs when popped; in another valley will be maize with two-foot-long cobs with great puffy kernels that Mexicans float in soup like croutons. . . . Page 223

More than fifty genetically distinguishable maize “landraces” have been identified in Mexico, of which at least thirty are native of Oaxaca, according to Flavio Aragon Cuevas, a maize researcher at the Oaxaca office of the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture, and Fisheries Research. A landrace is a family of local varieties, each of which may have scores of “cultivars,” or cultivated varieties. As many as five thousand cultivars may exist in Mesoamerica. ` Page 224

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 Dinesh
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Roasted corn ~ $5 a piece.....
2 years ago.

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