Chef Ashish Alfred, who co-hosts the show Bar Rescue, is also #TeamBoiling. “If you actually want to taste the corn, boiling is the way to go. It’s the most efficient, consistent method to cook it ...

Chefs agree that boiling corn is the best way to cook corn, delivering perfectly tender kernels. Sweet corn is used for corn on the cob, but there are other types like field, popcorn and flint corn.

Cobs of corn you buy for grilling must fulfill a handful of requirements to get a beautiful char without burning it. Here's what to look for when buying it.

Popcorn is an iconic movie night snack and can be flavored in all sorts of ways. But, what type of corn does popcorn come from and how do you make it pop?

Along with your next perfect ear of summer corn, we thought you might like to learn something about the vegetable we Americans can’t seem to get enough of. The word "corn" comes from the Old ...

Dent and flint are both types of field corn, which is a far cry from the sweet corn you eat off the cob. The two varieties have different levels of starch firmness, which are much greater than ...

Plus, the Pacific gum plant is a coastal, ground-hugging perennial that displays a blanket of daisies this time of year.

In the mix is the ancient teosinte (right), a grass-like crop, to the Longfellow Flint and Reid's Yellow Dent Corn, and U.S. 13, the first commercial hybrid.

Albie Barden preserves native varieties of flint corn for future generations His abiding interest in Native American foodways has given him insight into the spiritual significance of growing food.

A reader asks if the year's crop of ornamental corn is edible. No, it's flint corn, which is just as hard as its name suggests. You could boil it until the cows came home, and the cows would still ...

Grits can be made with yellow or white dent corn. Polenta, on the other hand, is Italian in origin, and traditionally made with yellow flint corn.

Dent corn is a widely grown type of field corn, but like flint corn, it is hard and requires quite a bit of processing (i.e., drying and milling) before it can be used.