The American vegetable landscape has shifted. Farmers are abandoning onetime basics such as sweet corn, green beans, peas and potatoes. In their place, they’re planting sweet potatoes and leafy ...

Sweet corn, though, is only 1 percent of the corn that Americans actually grow and consume. And, it is a genetic mutation of the majority of corn that you see in the field.

Kevin Moe, a Syngenta Seed rep, holds an ear of sweet corn on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at one of the company's test sites near Pasco, Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo ...

Sweet corn is the result of a recessive mutation in genes that control the conversion of sugar to starch. Native American tribes introduced it to European conquerors.

Sweet corn season in Northeast Ohio has us looking closely at every golden kernel. ... Corn is all-American, north and south. It is our only indigenous cereal grain.

Quintessentially American: corn- whether dent, sweet, pop or flint- is part of our cultural identity and essential to our economy. Illinois is the heart of the Corn Belt and State Fair time is a ...

Corn season is here! Most of us can’t get enough of the sweet, summer vegetable. We love those first tasty bites of corn, ...

Kosher salt. Cilantro sprigs. Coarse sea salt. 1. Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Pull back the husks from the corn to expose about 3 inches of the cob.