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The Story of Corn

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The Story of Corn is a unique compendium, drawing upon history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the ordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Corn transformed the way all the world eats, providing a hardy, reasonably priced alternative to rice or wheat and cheap fodder for livestock and finding its way into the whole thing from explosives to embalming fluid.

Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it world wide. She explores corn’s roles as food, fetish, crop, and commodity to people who have planted, consumed, worshiped, processed, and profited from it for seven centuries.

Now to be had only from the University of New Mexico Press, The Story of Corn, is the winner of a Julia Child Cookbook Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

“Written in a full of life and nontechnical style.”–Library Journal

“Fussell has clearly done a great deal of research and numerous traveling–peering over a precipice at Machu Picchu, descending into a restored ceremonial kiva of the Anasazi people in New Mexico, visiting the sole surviving corn palace from the Midwest boosters–glory days of a century ago.”–Kirkus Reviews

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