| 单词 | corn |
| 例句 | Ten thousand years ago, there were no dairy cows or ferret hounds or large ears of corn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the cows head out to pasture in the spring, several dozen pigs come in and hunt for the corn in the manure pile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And the one on the pigeons, trained to peck a button that made a grain of corn appear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z When we think of serious corn eaters, we often think of people in Mexico. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was nice to eat fresh corn and just pick it as we needed it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I measured out one day’s worth of corn meal every morning and gave it to the chef of the day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted the rows of corn on my cob and I couldn’t believe it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Hot corn bread and lima beans sat on the table. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We were all so hungry that when we smelled the corn and lentils cooking, our bodies just couldn’t wait. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn bread still has twenty minutes to go. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In a rare mood of intimacy Judith linked arms with Kit as they set out along High Street to gather the last of the corn in the meadow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The seed had all the softness of boiled corn, and the taste of his friend’s deception was bitter in his mouth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Her laugh was loud, like our chickens squawking over the last bits of corn. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Corn was roasted to make chicos, blue corn was ground into meal, and the rest was stored for the animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenna’s father actually farms his land; he grows soybeans and the sweetest corn for miles around. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Mama and Grandma were pleased and contented with the crop, but Deydey was jealous of the amount of new corn he saw the crows devouring. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Why should it matter that we have become a race of corn eaters such as the world has never seen? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They stood, panting in the dim light, jumping when something else crashed from the corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then Kiakime’s father stepped forward, and holding up a feathered prayer stick, made a long prayer, then threw the stick after the corn meal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Grandma settled into her chair to smother her last pancake with corn syrup. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z What gets a steer from 80 to 1,100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous amounts of corn, food supplements, and drugs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Since all number 2 corn is treated as though it is exactly the same, we don’t have to follow Naylor’s kernels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had the eggs, the rest of the ham, the corn cakes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She put the corned beef back into her basket and covered it with a bag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When it was over, the teacher held five kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z People working near me around the small mountain of corn laughed at my blisters and told me I was being initiated. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But between meals, Shin could help himself to ground corn intended for the piglets he fed between November and July. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So Old Yeller and I took to sleeping in the corn patch every night. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He washes the dishes, when he washes them, in the bathtub, where scraps of crust and kernels of canned corn are to be seen caught in the drain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They mill the corn into its different parts to be used in processed food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “My crazy brother did not cut down the corn,” she quickly reminded me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The fish bones crackled and snapped in his mouth like dry corn in a mill. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The can of corn was still there, holding it open. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I like corn, but only if it’s alone, sprinkled with salt and doused in butter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Do you remember the wall behind the row of corn your father had planted, Amir jan? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z So instead I said: “It’s not really so bad. We often planted corn this late—even in July. It does very well.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The corn had hidden her for as long as it could, and then Sean and Finn had hidden her for a time, even if they hadn’t known it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z An awful lot of those extra corn calories are being eaten as high-fructose corn syrup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She winces as she breaks up some frozen corn kernels with the flat edge of a knife. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “May it be mine,” the reaper prays, “beside Demeter’s altar to dig the great winnowing fan through her heaps of corn, while she stands smiling by with sheaves and poppies in her hand.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He says that when you look at the carbon in the average American’s cells, “we look like corn chips with legs.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But a second later, he was up again, streaking through the tall corn, dragging a broken wing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I figured,” says Namrata, throwing back a fistful of candy corn. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The corn at the grain elevator was not the same kind of corn you or I eat when we have corn on the cob. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Great-uncle Edisto always cooked his famous corn bread and good black snap beans and corn on the cob, if it was summer. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z From a distance I must have looked like a tornado tearing up the rows of corn. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Women walked by us with baskets of corn upon their heads; men mowed wheat with scythes, followed closely by teams of gatherers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The chickens can eat it, too, though they like corn better. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It changed the very landscape of Iowa, as corn drove out the other plants and animals and even many of the people. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He came to where I stood directing the waters of the acequia down the rows of corn. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Any batch of number 2 corn was guaranteed to be as good as any other number 2 field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He would disappear into the cornfields for hours, because he claimed the corn was whispering to him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d shucked him like a piece of corn, throwing his clothes in all directions. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z George Naylor finds himself in the same trap as all the other corn and soybean farmers in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ma’see’wi and Ou’yu’ye’wi the twin brothers were caring for the mother corn altar, but they got interested in this magic too. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And just as important, the new colo-nists gave corn a way to get to the rest of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Here in Bat Deng’s market, long homemade wooden tables display dried fish, slabs of pork, yellow naked chickens, green beans, white corn, red tomatoes, orange mangoes, ripe guava, papayas, and some precooked food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, if the corn were higher, he could vanish into it, go missing himself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Miss Lizzy, do you know where I can get dry corns?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We could even trade for flour if we had a mind to, but we generally took our corn to the mill to be ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the McIntyres’ a coffin was placed in front of the door, and Mr. McIntyre rose from it in silence, his face covered with chalk, and deposited a fistful of candy corns into our sacks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The island homes were damp and moss covered and lay in solitary fields and vales of alfalfa, feed corn, and strawberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It is a lot easier to break the corn down into kernels and pump it, like a liquid, into the grain elevators and into the railroad cars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And like any good detective, I real-ized I had to start at the very beginning, which in this case meant a field of corn in Iowa. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mom and I would always stop here on the way home from soccer practice to get a Powerade and corn nuts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Lunches in Brookhaven went straight from garden to table: tomatoes with basil, eggplant, corn, zucchini flower tempura. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They’d eat at restaurants with shiny menus that promised free ice cream after the mini corn dogs or chicken nuggets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z If you spat on each grain of corn that was planted, the corn would grow tall and bear well. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Releasing a heavy sigh, I slathered butter all over a piece of warm corn bread. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She sang along: “The corn is as high as an el-e-phant’s eyyye ...” She did not insist on folding all her clothes, but used the closet too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn borer and the sugarcane borer are also being tested. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We walked on the beach, fed blue corn chips to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy, and all the other free samples my mom had brought from work. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Southwest; at less than 0.3 miles per year, for corn and beans from Mexico northward to become productive in the eastern United States around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That grass was called maize, but today we know it as corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She opened the cans, and they had a feast: creamed corn with their stew, and peaches for dessert. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, can’t we grow the corn first? Then you can build it?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The air is filled with the scents of corn popping, peanuts roasting, and the tangy undertone of animal. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Sure, meatloaf too. And peas. And corn. You name it.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All sorts of crops grew here: corn, but also fruits and other vegetables, as well as oats, hay, and alfalfa to feed the pigs, cattle, chickens, and horses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To one side, where I had cut down the last three rows of corn, Dad had marked off a long rectangle with twine wrapped around stakes in the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As they flew over a small village, Ellsberg heard what sounded like corn popping. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I heard the corn talking to you,” he said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Instead of trying to keep corn prices low, gov-ernment farm policy was aimed at keeping food prices—and farmers’ income—stable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To get the corn flowing and keep it flowing, agribusiness depends on government regulations and taxpayer money. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If this is true, then what we are today is mostly corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She digs a hole for the corn under the fire and spreads the fire over the makeshift stove. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat by Elizabeth, husked corn, and smiled at David’s constant stream of chatter. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We marched behind Grandma, and it wasn’t too bad until the sun came up over the tassels on the corn. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They have all kinds of sides too, including four kinds of corn: on the cob, spicy, regular, or creamed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I got to get corns and a bowl of water. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even the food is surreal: corned beef and cabbage with pumpkin pie that’s still frozen in the middle for dessert. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On the first occasion they were lucky enough to find and kill a sick owl that had eaten a mouse that had eaten poison-dressed seed corn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, corn grown in fields within this area contained almost twice as many of the destructive larvae of this insect as did the corn grown outside. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then she cooked, using her daily ration of seven hundred grams of corn meal to make porridge in the one pot she owned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Two of the men began pumping up two Primus stoves, one with a black pot of corn mush upon it, and the other, with a large, black, greasy saucepan containing chunks of liver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Other kids are like, “The best part of my week is that there was creamed corn in the cafeteria.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We don’t recognize it as corn, though, because it’s been turned into something else. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I use “maize” because Indian maize—multicolored and mainly eaten after drying and grinding— is strikingly unlike the sweet, yellow, uniform kernels usually evoked in North America by the name “corn.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Daddy used to make them wait until corn shucking or Christmas to marry,” Rufus told me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Enrique sees men with hoes tending their corn and women inside their kitchens patting tortillas into shape. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Slowly, she enunciated the new words I was to repeat: laundromat, corn flakes, subway, snow. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It had been upstairs at the store ever since, alongside the stock of corn planters, fertilizer spreaders, mule collars, iron washpots, hat trees, and extra brass racks for readymade dresses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The unfortunate corn plant, following its Mexico-adapted genetic program, would prepare to thrust up its shoots in March, only to find itself still buried under 10 feet of snow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His father, not far off, limped as he worked along the newly turned rows of corn. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she ran off, disappearing into the thick stalks of corn bordering one of the farms that led around the opposite side of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well. I suppose I’d be pleased to write out a prescription for your corns.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kids are asleep. There’s fried ham and beans. Potatoes and creamed corn. I can warm it for you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well...not much better. But perhaps you deserve to be something better than a corn plant. Sorghum? Sorghum is very nice.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even the citric acid that keeps the nugget “fresh” is made from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is the fastest- growing chicken ever, turning corn into meat faster than any other bird. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Farmers haul their corn to town in big open wagons that scatter a light rain of corn behind them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Big agribusiness corporations, the same ones that need cheap corn for their mills, helped write the very laws that set farm policy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That night Pa brought in some ears of corn with large plump kernels. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z West Indian women stood by their pepperpot kettles stirring fragrant stews, while the hot corn girls walked up and down the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifts the pot to the table, spoons out the potatoes one each and uses a fork to lift out the corned beef. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I explained to Willie that the corn had grown in a deep bed of composted chicken manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They arranged a pouch of seashells on her breast together with morsels of smoked fish and a few grains of corn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So by looking at the type of carbon in our cells, scientists can tell how much corn we have been eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Somebody hung a pair of corn husk sandals on the high-voltage wires by the commuter line. I wonder who they belong to. I called Brad Pitt, but he’s wearing his.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Among them are the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch; mono-, tri-, and diglycerides; dextrose; lecithin; yellow corn flour; regular cornstarch; vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A new business emerged—cattle, pigs, and chickens started being stuffed full of corn in large factory-type operations called feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Earlier visitors to the shelter had left behind an assortment of canned foods—beans, corn, Spam, baby carrots—which were lined up carefully along one of the support rafters. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He saw row after row of canned peas and tuna fish and pear slices, applesauce and mandarin oranges and corn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Of course he began with the steaming pile of corn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He took time to scratch the side of his face rapidly with his foot, then attacked the corn pile again. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z For this reason the plants grew tall and the people would all think of the delicious corn that would soon be cooking in their pots. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I did not finish my creamed corn, broccoli, Rice Krispies, or peanut butter sandwiches. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They made bonfires with dried sticks, corn husks, and paper, cursing the authorities under their breath. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The shots sounded like popping corn at first, then grew louder as they came near. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It means corn can stay king of the supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He’d been a presence in the summer months, looking after the Indian corn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Built themselves a home right here on Birdsong Creek and fought off the Indians and cleared a corn patch and raised me and Little Arliss and lost a little sister who died of a fever. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Agribusinesses also need cheap corn from which they make processed food and hundreds of other products. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Working in a rice field is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent-size corn or wheat field. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As Kim begins to tell Ma what he did, I edge myself closer and closer to the bags of corn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One-tenth of the U.S. corn crop is turned into processed food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Every hour he made a pit stop to relieve himself and to buy more economysized bottles of Pepsi, more chocolate chip cookies, more red licorice and corn chips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He polishes his corn dog off in a few bites and then looks at my untouched lunch. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I like a corn- bread batter to be stirred some so everything is mixed but not too smooth with all the lumps gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When those packs were set neatly down on the bottom, she told Omakayas to fetch the parched corn, which she had stored in neat skin bags. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Once, though, I watched them get drunk on some foul brown corn brew, stand at the enclosure gate, and shout for me in accented Lingala, their eyes dancing mad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He jotted how many days each had grown and how tall they were as well as how many ears of corn there were. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z At last the kernels of corn began to swell, and they swelled and swelled until their skins split open and began to peel off. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Nana tossed creamed corn and green beans and artichoke hearts into our cart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I made all his favorites. Liver and onions, corn souffle, green beans, dinner rolls. We re having a feast tonight! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Frankweiler amassed a fortune from the corn oil industry and from developing many corn products. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of Central America cultivated corn in many colors. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Growing corn is just riding tractors and spraying,” Naylor told me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I remember Mom’s friend, Dr. Nguyen, but think Voxy’s tiny closet is way too small to be the universal seed vault where Mom contributed New Mexican corn, squash, and beans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It is worthless! Look how hard we worked on the garden all summer, and for what? Two baskets of chile and one of corn! Bah!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is where they first eat corn. it’s where I picked him out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The silence wrapped around her like a quilt, a silence made up of trees growing and corn ripening, of the bright sky glowing and the distant water following its tides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama also did not appreciate that Sumac was forever trying to sneak dried corn from our large storage jar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z That way the bean vines could wrap around the corn plants like necklaces and dangle their pods like earrings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Breakfast consisted of mealie pap porridge, cereal made from maize or corn, which the general prisoners would slop in a bowl and then spin through the bars of our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Onlookers chewed fresh oysters and hot corn as the auctioneers shouted into the air. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There are sacks of flour, beans, and dry corn scattered on the floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But since Sharkey came they don’t grind no more corn at all. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarecrows weren’t made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I felt close to them when I rose each morning and used corn pollen at dawn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I put the beets, two long rows of them, in the same field with the corn, next to the soybeans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Monday morning, she showed up carrying a box loaded to the top with two loaves of banana bread, two pies, peanut butter cookies, corn muffins, a dish of macaroni and cheese, and a lasagna. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I reached down to touch my buckskin pouch filled with corn pollen. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Wayne Robbins and Mr. Gorley talk about the rains of ’16 that produced beets the size of basketballs and corn tall enough to tickle a giraffe's chin. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But the busi-nesses that run the grain elevators and the industrial food chain do not look at corn as food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Taller taller it grows, to fantastic size, till its wide shadow shelters a small corn plot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She piled our plates with succulent fatty ribs and steaming collard greens and passed around a basket with neatly cut squares of corn bread, which we slathered with butter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z These southeastern peoples and their descendants today maintain important traditions related to corn, such as Green Corn ceremonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The soybean has become the second major crop in the industrial food chain, taking turns each year in the field with corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Powhatan thus invited Captain Ratcliffe and thirty others to trade for corn, and having brought them within his ambush, murthered them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Contrast this quick evolution of wheat and barley with the story of corn, the leading cereal crop of the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The average supermarket doesn’t seem much like a field of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After the work, there were great quantities of food—chicken, pork, vegetables, corn bread, fruit—better food than the herring and corn meal field hands usually saw so much of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes coyotes would come and eat watermelons, too; and now and then a deer would jump into the field and eat corn, melons, and peas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning before I shipped out, I rose before dawn and prayed with my corn pollen. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Snail took one of the corn seeds and put it in his mouth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z What happens to the corn plants and the luxuriant branching vines when the grain is harvested, the grapes gathered, and the black frost sets in, killing the fresh green life of the fields? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “And prunes and creamed corn and cranberry sauce and asparagus ...” “All that?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But what was a corn shuck doing there? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They had eaten a lot of tortillas and sweet corn. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z After the devastating bath of dieldrin recently administered to the farmlands in eastern Illinois for the control of the Japanese beetle, farmers discovered that corn borers had increased enormously in the treated area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This corn is struggling to grow through a crack in the sidewalk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Near nightfall, they shared the last of the corn bread and ventured to the river to gather some water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s corn here too, but it’s a little harder to see. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Hot-water corn bread—cornmeal, water, flour, sometimes an egg—plopped into sizzling grease. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Papa would be guiding the plow and I would be right along putting in corn kernels. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hamburgers, corn on the cob, chocolate pudding—p-u-d-d-i-n-g,” said the Spelling Bee in his turn. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I’m going to he down for just a minute,” said Louisiana, “and then when I get up, I will be ready to eat some candy corn.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The menu was always the same: fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, boiled okra, sliced tomatoes, corn bread, and chocolate or coconut cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the new colonies corn often took the place of money. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I mean, one minute you’d see her snapping string beans and cutting corn off the cob. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Heard him tell Ma the Clemson cattle ran the fence again, ate up the north field of corn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z There were pies and corn bread and chicken livers and ham and dandelion greens and grits. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Grandma wants to know if you’ll stay for dinner, Brady. It’s just BLTs and corn because we’re going to the hospital after dinner to see Daddy. But you’re welcome to stay.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Jang was also given a coveted job on a nearby farm, where there were opportunities to steal corn, rice, and green vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The train chugged, past the backs of buildings and then out into the corn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The oldest corn cobs are barely more than half an inch long, but Mexican Indian farmers of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So all the corn the farmers grew was put on the market, driving the price down. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was still plenty of careless weeds and crabgrass that needed hoeing out of the corn, but I guessed I could let them go long enough to see a bullfight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z That means the source of those calories is not a potato farm but a field of corn or soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We were in her garden, planting more corn and beans that would continue to bear after the crops we’d planted in May were done. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Rows of corn stood at attention as the Cadillac ambled past, like a chariot returning with the land’s king and queen. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "My mother told me I was to take the goat to the market," he said, "and to sell him for a hen, and some corn, and some turnips, and to bring her home the change." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z All of them were high in protein—17-32 percent, compared with 8—14 percent for wheat, 9 percent for corn, and even lower for barley and white rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The arrival of high-yield corn changed all that. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z These two companies guide corn’s path every step of the way. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I sit at the little table, eating creamed corn with a fork. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s sugar beets and sweet corn and green peas. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Before they were finished gathering corn, however, we were faced with a trouble a whole lot too big for any of us to handle. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z When corn, oats, or sorghum containing large amounts of nitrates are ensiled they release poisonous nitrogen oxide gases, creating a deadly hazard to anyone entering the silo. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Everybody knows that when a barn rat looks down into a barrel that seems half full of shucked corn, he never suspicions that it’s really half full of water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Everything dried up all the plants the corn the beans they all dried up and started blowing away in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The held George and I planted that day would produce 1.8 million pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He shut up his grumbling stomach by sneaking a few ears of corn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z In her worry about Moving Day, in watching the tractor, the cat, and finally the rats, Mrs. Frisby had forgotten that she had set out originally to get some corn for supper. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And the wheat and corn took a beating in the storm. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Soldiers heaved the corpse like a sack of corn onto the wagon that would bring the body to its first stop on the journey back to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go get your corn now, Biddy. I need to rest and be alone with my thoughts.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Such controlled fires helped to clear space in the forest for growing corn and other crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As I was waiting in line for corn dog number two, a small boy ran by me with a stick horse between his legs, shouting, “Ride ’em, cowboy!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If you’ve read this far, you already know the answer—most of them come from cheap corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Her pan wasn’t big enough to hold a whole ear of corn, but you could scrape off the kernels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I wiped the last scrap of scrapple around my plate in the corn syrup. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She tore open her blouse so the pale yellow buttons went flying like popped corn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Chris took canned corn and peaches and cherries and lots of jelly of different kinds and a wonderful big white cake. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I passed the platters of chicken and corn and proposed a toast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When she asked him in halting English about the acidity of soil and how it affected the corn crop, Charlie said, “Knows her dirt.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He didn't want to spend the rest of his life watching the corn grow. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed his hands together and tobacco fell into the corn husks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Doc lay up there with his rough, dark-skinned feet pointing at me while he folded and braided corn husks into the shape of a rose. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m not talking about the corn in the produce section. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He imagined a life of surfboards with groups of tanned people eating medium-spiced corn chips on his seaside balcony. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In contrast, the most important cereal crops of eastern Asia and of the New World—rice and corn, respectively—had a lower protein content that posed significant nutritional problems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mom grew vegetables in a garden—cassava, corn, beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After watering both corn groups, he made his way over to the eating area, where Nali was sitting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Over the next several weeks they’ll gradually step up to a daily ration of thirty-two pounds of feed, including twenty-four pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Her first husband developed a hankering for corn whiskey and started using his big hands to make big fists. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s just that the corn we eat wears many different disguises. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The freezer isn’t much better—a ten-pound bag of chicken, a bag of peas, and a bag of corn. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Pouches of pan-fried shredded coconut Tamarind paste on banana leaf Steamed corn on the cob Rounds of fried dough Wedges of pineapple on a stick And of course cubes of papaya tender and shiny. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Caterpillar spread out dry corn husks on the floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He lay hidden during the day and went in search of food at night— turnips, a few ears of corn from a crib, a few windfall apples—nothing that would be missed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A young girl saw me eating the corn in the garden and immediately reported my presence to the priest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He was nervous because he knew Mom was going to erupt when she saw her corn cut down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “There is much good in blue corn meal,” she smiled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No more corn meal mush once she realized I didn’t like it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if it had mistaken him for some hostile animal, lurking down in the corn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There’s plenty of cover for rabbits—standing corn, hedges and banks—but no real woodland: just great, open fields of light soil with big white flintstones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For days, the girls dried and then parched the corn that they had saved from the hungry birds. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Give me a shout. I’m still planning to pop some corn and have a Spaced marathon. You down?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Yet there stood those jars of corn whiskey on our closet shelf. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t favor corn pudding neither,” she said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This road narrowed and ran straight between fields of tall, ripening corn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s more corn in the meal, but it’s harder to measure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then he left me there, wandering off sideways through the corn instead of down the rows, alternately whistling and humming a song I didn’t know. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Every meal was the same: corn porridge, pickled cabbage, and cabbage soup. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the morning, when he woke, big, egg-shaped pots of corn- and-bean mash would be on the fire, simmering with meat, vegetables, or dried fish to make a slow-cooked dinner stew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He sat in the center of the white corn sand painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as if she could preserve her anger and store it in a glass jar next to the hot horseradish and yellow beans and corn chowchow she kept in the dank basement pantry. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “We just finished eating the second box of corn flakes this morning,” Claudia informed him. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When she looked inside, instead of a steaming heap of fine white corn, she saw only three lone kernels, the ones she had placed in the pot day after day. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The net had a long string on it, so the boys would move away from the net, but when a bird landed to eat the corn, they’d pull the string tight and catch the bird. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When we made our dinner, I went to deliver some of the corn mash to him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in America now convert their harvest into fuel. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother was cutting wedge-shaped pieces of corn mush from an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I took stock of what I had in the cave: a few pounds of cornmeal in a paper bag, some salt, three cans of meat, three of beans, one of peas, two of corn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Seconds later, we were sitting in the yard watching the chickens peck for corn and bugs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z What he did not know, though, was that the moment he had left, Tortoise had taken a handful of corn and had put it into boiling water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Instead of answering, Stella concentrated on the last kernels of corn pudding. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I like my corn dogs bare and thrown nonchalantly into a paper sleeve. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z For a moment, he could only hear the soft: thudding of his own footsteps, and the silky sound of the corn, brushing against him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I visit with the corn kernels planted deep within Pachamama’s body as they eagerly stretch out their first roots. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I watched all fifty-two ultra-cheesy episodes of The Space Giants, back-to-back, while wolfing down corn chips and taking notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Yuni offered him some corn, but Gunwoo, who normally ate any food in sight, shook his head and continued to cry. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They had seemed dull and forgettable then, but Ophie yearned for one more dinner of beans and fatback with corn bread, Daddy telling stories of the rail yard as they ate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But the river of surplus corn is waiting and so the cows must be forced to consume it and turn it into beef you and I can buy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most of them had fields of corn and tomatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go to our house and bring Coyotito,” he said, “and bring all the corn we have. I will drag the canoe into the water and we will go.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I joined him, also enjoying the cold corn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z There is corn glistening with butter, and salads made from iceberg lettuce and tomatoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The same businesses that create new seeds provide farmers with the tools and fertilizer they need to grow lots of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Favorites include cracked corn, black oil sunflower seeds, and mealworms. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The scientific name for the “corn” that was cultivated in the Americas is Zea mays. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Doha was sitting on the wooden porch of his house with his sister, eating corn, when his friend Gunwoo ran into their courtyard in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Lizzie also grew up on the reservation in Kansas, where she helped to provide for her family, harvesting corn and hauling wood over distances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But what happens to the eighty pounds of man-made nitrogen that Naylor’s corn plants don’t take up? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We could make ravioli and garlic bread, quesadillas with beans and rice on the side, vegetable soup, a spinach salad with dried cranberries and blue cheese, or chili with corn bread. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Yet Americans have more corn in our diet than Mexicans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the competition for king of the crops, corn left the European plants in the dust. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A neighbor was boiling corn, and once in a while, when the water frothed over, the stove fire hissed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There were also—in the store—seeds of all kinds: corn, wheat, oats, barley, and most kinds of truck vegetables and fruit—almost everything that will grow here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That means fungi in the manure turn some of the corn into alcohol. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On the first nights I’d always lie up in bed, listening to the husky whisper of the dry August corn in the fields. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Today it is the most valuable food product refined from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t catch him offering to chop wood or gather in a corn crop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because of the way his parents and older brothers talked: “Government won't let us plant corn there again.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The mule whinnied and leaned against the sagging gate; Tayo reached into the coffee can and he held some corn under the quivering lips. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Putting on his hat and taking the corn bread with him, he headed out for the three-mile walk to the mill, where, Stella knew, he’d be lifting logs and sweeping sawdust all day long. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z While they waited, they pulled weeds around the chili plants and shoveled dirt around the low places in the rows of corn where the water might be lost. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z To follow the industrial food chain, I had to follow the river of corn through a wet mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He ate another piece of jerky and a handful of parched corn, waiting for the dark. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z After the corn bread is cut into wedges, the peaches washed and dried . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z My mom’s a doctor and he is just killing time before coaching volleyball, so eat all the Fritos and corn syrup you want. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The corn swayed in the wind, like dancers with scarves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z What George Naylor grows, and what was in the pile by the elevator, is a type called “number 2 field corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z High above him the stars glittered and gleamed, and the harvest moon shone golden yellow, the color of ripe corn. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I stack the remaining cans of corn and peas on the shelf in front of me, pick up the empty cardboard box, and stand up slowly, hoping to determine who it is without being seen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There were heaps of milled corn and steaming vats of cabbage soup. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My family who has only themselves and dirt and corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she and Lupita boiled a dozen eggs, which they packed into a small cloth bag along with some corn tortillas and a bottle of water. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Mama just brought some buttermilk and cold corn lightbread and they sat there by me in the hall to eat it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Getting cows to eat a corn diet takes a heroic effort on the part of the factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I stare at my corn dog and wonder if I’m the stupid worm. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It was only rice and beans with corn tortillas, but it made me feel like a king. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t understand why there had to be corn in everything we eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She had a contractor paint the rooms the colors of sweet peas and corn on the cob. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So while we were eating corn, the car was eating corn too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He moved through the field, the plants turning from corn to wheat to thick grasses back to corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z "Go and get some food, Justin. Dogs, French fries, some a that sweet corn. You go help him carry it, Sonny." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The cornhusking was forgotten, the fun of it, the singing, the capering that had gone on while they husked the corn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They milled around in there like a pack of hound dogs kept in a corn crib, all crowded together and noisy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The chili was thick, red like fresh blood, and full of dried corn and fresh venison. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I walked along the edge of our farm, past the beans and peas to the corn and the watermelons across from them, until I got to the tomatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The peoples of the corn remain connected in spite of the heavy influences of colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There’s still a lot of corn hiding in this supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Stella asked hopefully, now placing a slice of lumpy corn bread in front of him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had spoken wearily, as they sat in the living room, eating boiled corn and ube. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She watched sadly as her sisters vanished into the night sky, leaving her alone with the young man, a cob of corn still clutched in her delicate hand.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was as if it held light instead of candy corn. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Every pass across this field, which is almost perfectly flat, represents another acre of corn planted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Though it wasn’t even the end of June, we tasted the first sweet corn of the season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “A missed connection. You know those posts where it’s like, I saw you on the F train reading Fifty Shades of Grey and eating candy corn.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I had planned to fertilize the corn and the soybeans, which were now up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The first step in the “digestion” of corn is to split the kernel into its different parts: • The yellow skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Jeff had popped back into the kitchen and came back with a tray of corn bread. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I bit the days off in rows, corn kernels that popped in my mouth and wedged between my teeth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Except instead of corn it’s any bit of detail or rumor or possibility of what might have happened yesterday afternoon in the parking lot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z They used a homemade gadget for scraping corn off the cob and added globs of butter, cream, and salt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I said: “But I need it. I was going to cultivate the corn.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “You see that corn? I want the dirt chopped up so fine I can sift it through my fingers,” he tells me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the dust and heat began to recede; the short grass and stunted corn seemed distant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A boy with hair as yellow as canned creamed corn scooted his chair right next to mine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I'm glad I'm not growing corn—it would pop before I could harvest it! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In the afternoon I planted, getting the corn about three-fourths done before it was time to go in and start the supper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z One of the few pieces of information we have about them is that at a very solemn moment the worshipers were shown “an ear of corn which had been reaped in silence.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No kid’s going to get kidnapped because they loved corn and lima beans too much!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “This is why you wanted me to mow the corn, right?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We had gone up to the corn patch to pick a bait of blackeyed peas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I sample the air, but all I smell is caramel corn. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z In order from most corny to least, this is how the laboratory measured our meal: What looks like a meal with lots of variety turns out to be mainly corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The height difference between the traditional corn, planted in a spiral, and modern, planted in a square, was minimal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When the corn began to steam he took the cans from the fire with the pliers and they sat bent over them with their spoons, eating slowly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was short, but super shiny, like dark corn silk. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She made a beeline through the food section of the market—past the corn dog stand, the guy selling turkey legs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Of course, the American taxpayers have already paid part of the cost by subsidizing corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But as corn took over the family farm, cows and other animals were pushed out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then I’d jump to my feet and go running through the corn, shouting encouragement to Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z One held an ear of dried-up corn, another a turkey’s foot, meant to stand for the whole turkey. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z American farmers produce thirteen billion bushels of corn a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Yet one person who is not getting rich from the mountain of corn is the American farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The tall corn whispers as we go, about sky, about clouds, about secrets corn knows. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tell your mama her beans will go perfect with the killed lettuce. I hope Mrs. Odom is bringin’ her famous corn pone,” Stella’s mother said as she stirred another pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He laughed and tossed the ear on the pile of corn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After corn came hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, and cherries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Tote a little corn bread for ’em too. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the sizzle of meat frying on the stove and the open-and-close of the oven as she checked the biscuits or corn bread or pie or whatever she was baking for supper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In the meantime, the Kecoughtans are very close by, and my blue beads have kept us well supplied with corn from them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Snail, however, was now suspicious of the seed he had been given, and when, the following year, Tortoise again gave him corn seed, he took it to Hare. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z That farm is just a small part of an eighty-million-plus- acre corn lawn rolling across the continent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We also had mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z For his final measurements, the modern corn was taller. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Angeline had acquired, from Fishtail, some corn with red flecks in it and Mama put these seeds into the ground with a special blessing, curious to see what their growth would bring. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She wished she knew where to find a bit of green lettuce, or a small egg, or a taste of cheese, or a corn muffin. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But corn isn’t the only thing the cattle are fed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When Jorge’s corn was done, it would be his turn to help his neighbor. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The nugget is made with corn products called binders and emulsifiers and fillers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The one that could round up a whole herd of corn, practically lining them up single file? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Now farm policy was aimed at one thing: keeping corn prices as low as possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After horses were cattle, chickens, and then corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was no breeze and the air was full of the sweet, chrysanthemum-like smell of the flowering compositae of dry uplands—corn chamomile, yarrow and tansy. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn, which had been so green and strong, was now striped with yellowing leaves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In fact, it looked like she and Mama and Little Arliss had a real good time gathering corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped a pan of corn meal and started to follow Nigel out. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The first great cultivators of corn were the Mayans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z However, those few successes have changed our food habits far less than Mexican corn changed food habits of Native Americans in the eastern United States after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the corn was mounded up, the best singer among the slaves, the one with the highest, clearest, truest voice, climbed to the top of the stack and led off the singing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so good that Laura could hardly wait for the corn to be ready, after Ma started to hull it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Lina remembered having creamed corn once, as a thrilling treat, when she was five years old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s the factory worker whose hands were flattened like corn tortillas by a machine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Brianna chimes in, “The crispy corn dog can fold up into a blanket. You can nap on it!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes he brings home bits of the free lunch, rye bread, corned beef, pickles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Nobody made corn bread as good as Mama. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It came topped with a mound of canned vegetables: peas, corn, carrot coins, potatoes, and diced turnips. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Tell them I’m dying and we desperately need milk and corned beef to keep me alive,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was drinking corn whiskey with Martin in the barn loft one night—the boy wouldn’t say where he got the jug—when they started talking about the women of Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She could feel the power of the great creature corning off him like waves of heat “I must work till sunset,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The government will give payments to farmers for all the corn they can produce, but not for growing vegetables or fruit. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Dad made me cut down the corn,” I whimpered, and dabbed at my nose for sympathy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Climbing down from the loft, we all went and looked at the three big stinking rats, floating in the barrel amongst the ears of corn that had been the bait. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It is thick with stalks of corn, each with three or four ears, standing twice the size of the small boy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The newer ones—the latest additions the men put up now that the corn was picked—followed an identical style, with more spacious rooms, and were distributed on the property with more care. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “And I need some dry corns. Ducks like dry corns, right?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It is created in a laboratory by adding genes to corn DNA. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The women laughed together as they filled bucket after bucket with corn. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With her forepaws and sharp teeth she pulled off a part of the husk from the top ear of corn and folded it double to serve as a crude carrying bag. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When the corn was gone, the mule licked for the salt taste on his hand; the tongue was rough and wet, but it was also warm and precise across his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when we had ribbon syrup or some extra corn we went into town. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung measured unwillingly into the skin of his uncle’s robe a small heap of beans and a precious handful of corn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My face burns with shallow cuts from the corn leaves, but my eyes are dry. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z To make processed food, corn is first broken down into different parts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That’s a perfectly safe strategy in Mexico’s mild climate, but in Canada a disastrous one that would guarantee the plant’s being killed by autumn frosts before it had produced any mature corn cobs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The corn told me that if you follow the stream going east, you’ll find a red barn with a slanted roof. Did the corn tell you that?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “The garden is all right. It needs hoeing. But the corn...” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But most of all, this policy helps corn to take over our land, our food industry, and even our bodies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Diamond Jim Brady dined with Lillian Russell and indulged his passion for sweet corn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Corn helped the colonists and the colonists helped corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I figured that if I got an early start, I could finish the corn patch by sundown. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The low price means there’s plenty of cheap corn for the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The land dripped with richness, the fat cows and pigs gleaming against green, and, in the smaller holdings, corn standing in little tents as corn should, and pumpkins all about. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "All I want is a corned beef sandwich, not a guided tour." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z We open and shut all the drawers and cabinets until we've found a pot for the chili, a grater for the cheese, a baking pan for the corn bread, and plates and silverware. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Behind him, the sun shone on a field where corn once grew. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As I pour a bowl of corn flakes, I count how many times someone in this house apologized to me for flushing while I was in the shower. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And then a gentle wind blew across the cornfields, and the corn whispered here, here, here. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Until he was a teenager, his family lived in the country several miles from Durham, tending a small farm of tobacco and corn using a team of mules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Finn didn’t believe in ghosts, and though the corn wouldn’t stop yapping at him, he was pretty sure it stayed put. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They fed us thick-crusted pie and corn on the cob and took Polaroids of us with Smokey the Bear, with balloon hats on. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Can we keep that? You know I always use the corn crop to fund my meals for the elderly.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z ‘And sure it was God's good providence that we found this corn,” Winslow wrote, “for else we know not how we should have done.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To the industrial food chain, cattle are just machines for turning number 2 field corn into cuts of beef. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Her hair was corn yellow and bound in a thick ribbon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil it was fried in was corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In Britain, “corn” can mean the principal cereal crop in a region—oats in Scotland, for example, are sometimes referred to by the term. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The drag on Jumper’s foot saved the corn but it didn’t save Mama from a lot of work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The house smelled of corn bread and beans, the Coalwood staple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “You been feeding your husband grits and corn pone ever day?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Um. The best part of my week was that my cousin gave me an iTunes gift card. The worst is that I hate creamed corn.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Making matters still more difficult, the golden river of corn is controlled by a tiny number of corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In paper money, two thousand dollars would not buy a bushel of corn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, maybe not all corn, but there’s still an awful lot of it hiding here—a lot more than you suspect. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Below, a valley is filled with fields of corn, radishes, and lettuce, each a different hue of green. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In it I put six eggs, some leftover corn bread, a little salt, and a few matches. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “And see, the corn is high. Ready to be picked.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The children spent all day arranging the corn into two mammoth piles, inside a border of red leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Your brother. Remember that Halloween when we were around seven or eight and those big-city kids came down to the corn maze dressed like skeletons?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There are seven trailers in all, different makes and models and years, and they sit in a line with the corn growing up around them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After a lunch of milled corn and salted cabbage, the exhausted children, their faces and clothes covered in coal dust, headed back to the coalface, carrying candles in the ink-black mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Potato soils have been found to contain up to 15 pounds of DDT per acre, corn soils up to 19. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I roam around for a while, eating kettle corn and playing a few games at the other booths. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I fill it up with corn flakes, five slices of bologna, one slice of cheese, and a handful of baby carrots. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When he barked treed a couple of minutes later, it was in the woods the other side of the corn patch. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It is these government checks, or subsidies, that keep corn and soybean prices low. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She said to Louisiana, “Get up. You can have some candy corn if you get up.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z At one end it eats millions of bushels of corn fed to it every day by the trainload. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The processed food industry has brought us corn in a thou-sand different forms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For example, you might take a type of corn that resists disease and cross it with another type of corn that produces a lot of ears. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Americans don’t think of themselves as corn eaters. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But if you count all the corn we eat, directly and indirectly the average American eats a ton of corn every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s corned beef and plenty of potatoes, and I shall get some asparagus and a lobster, ‘for a relish’, as Hannah says. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice reminded Piper of corn growing—a crackling, hissing, hot and persistent noise she used to hear at Grandpa Tom’s on those quiet nights in Oklahoma. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After that, she spread manure in the fields when the leaves of the Indian corn turned yellow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A field of corn in the distance looks dry and shriveled, and I wonder what would happen if someone flicked a match at it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In Mexico, for thousands of years corn was honored as a source of life. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was nervously nibbling a pencil as though it were a cob of corn. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In the Southfarthing the vines were laden, and the yield of ‘leaf’ was astonishing; and everywhere there was so much corn that at Harvest every barn was stuffed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But as the “paper” got closer, we could see that it was really sacks of corn and beans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, not a single bird had eaten so much as a kernel of corn, because the two girls were making so much noise. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Good question,” Mr. McCracken mutters to his corned beef, but with a tone that tells me he’s talking to his wife. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There was beans and rice, fried chicken, ribs, plantains, and corn on the cob. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But these few modern additions have remained of modest importance compared with ancient staples like wheat, corn, and rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When at last the corn was done, Ma put all the soft, white kernels in a big jar in the pantry. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z No house could be seen, although a circle of trees was visible beyond the tops of the corn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Black fields with young green wheat, fields of rye, corn, and moors of heath. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In fact, the majority of calories in the “healthy” salad come from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The important thing was to get the corn planted; it, at least, would do all right, though it would not ripen until late September or October. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Stunted stalks of corn, just waist-high, their leaves already russet colored and curling in on themselves, stretched forlornly in broken rows across parched, brown fields. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There she was, sitting with one forearm on the table, her other hand cupping her chin—and a shy smile revealing tiny baby teeth that looked like little white kernels of corn. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z To preserve his cover, Pike, who smoked a corn pipe and had a smudge of a mustache, met Hale at a concealed spot near Whizbang. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Huge surpluses of wheat, corn, milk, pork, and beef produced in the Midwest had caused the price of farm commodities to crash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z According to some, the backwoods stills of the old men on the Stone plantation produced the best corn whiskey in the county. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Dinners are simple: boiled corn from a farm stand, cold chicken, pasta with pesto, tomatoes from the garden sliced and salted on a plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Our bed was a thin mattress stuffed with old corn husks in front of the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If another got a half bushel of tomatoes or a dozen ears of corn, they ate them until they were gone too. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He used to take some of the cornstalks that Jenna’s father gave us and make tie-dyed patterns on the corn with food coloring. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I see her dark wrinkled hands spooning masa onto a corn husk. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But a corn diet causes a condition that keeps the gas from escaping. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At that price Naylor would have lost more than a dollar on every bushel of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Smell familiar? She used the same green corn you did in your last batch of whiskey.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z That’s the part that holds a tiny embryo of a corn plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Or they would cut the top off a big gourd they had grown and use that, sticking an ear of corn in the opening to seal it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to have to fill up the water tanks. Your corn is going to need water if it’s going to grow in this drought,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They learned to grow plants Indigenous peoples had domesticated, such as corn, squash, and tobacco. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The corn, on which I’d rubbed some olive oil and sprinkled salt and pepper, would take only a few minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In her honor, the brother planted all the remaining kernels, and it is said that the finest white corn grew from them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The government rules about organic food allow companies to make organic high-fructose corn syrup—words I never expected to see combined. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bushels of corn, bundles of raw wool, and a pile of three-foot crates that proved to be the source of the squawking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Americas, the most important plant the Indigenous peoples grew was maize, or corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Basically, the plants live in a city of corn, crowded together in neat rows. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And, of course, we could eat corn “as is”; the same was true of the beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z You know what it is like to feel the beauty of the sunrise touching you and giving you strength as the corn pollen is sprinkled on the earth into crosses where you kneel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They had cut the corn, and burned the stubble, and the field seemed much bigger, the trees on the edge of the wood looked a long distance away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Little town houses, with handkerchief lawns, gave way to fields where corn and soybeans grew. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Breakfast was good, although no more than a poor artisan could afford—milk and ale, gruel, sausages, and corn bread. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Making meal after meal of fried corn mush. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the year corn first became an ingredient in Coca-Cola. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “It looked like they were trying to grow corn on the track,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Biddy’s face look like—I don’t know—a full moon rising over a corn patch. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Small feathers, rich red and deep blue, were appearing, and he was growing larger on the many potatoes and corn kernels I fed him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Benny and Brad make about a gallon of fake blood from corn syrup and red dye, and let me have some. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In the back of the truck she was just sitting on is a stack of crates marked apples and flour and corn. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Just about the only business left standing in Churdan is the grain elevator, the tall structure where corn is stored before it is shipped elsewhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “It became routine for us as the corn ripened to pull all-night guard watches because the army would pick us clean,” he wrote. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She objected to the rough feel of the corn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I assume your grandmother is the woman who prays every morning with corn pollen.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We would load up with potatoes or corn or beets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year’s harvest and eaten them in the night. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After she cut me two slices of cold veal and a thick piece of fresh corn bread, Eliza started to make gingerbread, one of her specialties. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next couple of weeks, Kim continues to steal corn for us whenever we run out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad held his hand over his eyes to shade them from the sun as he surveyed the unmowed corn. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Imagine an Iowa farm with corn, corn, corn as far as the eye can see, ten- foot stalks in perfect thirty-inch rows to the horizon. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In return for her freedom, they demanded that her father free the English prisoners he was holding, give back stolen English weapons and tools, and send a large quantity of corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The factory farms take the raw material, corn, and turn it into another product—meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And of course, one thing the successful farmers did was plant more corn, helping maize to build its kingdom. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It’s relatively easy for humans to breed new types of corn to fit our needs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He is smiling and carrying two bags of fresh corn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, that breeding has made it lose a lot of its earthy corn flavor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z No one can own the species called “corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Stewart makes him a stack of corn cakes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Let’s go there and ask the farmer if she’s been by for corn.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z See what other words for corn you can find. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Why did government policy change to favor growing more and more corn? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The secret of modern corn hybrids is that they can be planted very close together. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn’t afraid of anything. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The essence of artificial selection—for a Heike crab, a dog, a cow or an ear of corn—is this: Many physical and behavioral traits of plants and animals are inherited. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sylvester kept an extremely large jar of candy corn on her desk at all times and in all seasons because she believed in feeding people. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Doha dropped his bundle of corn in shock. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Looking at it one way, each American eats only about a bushel of corn per year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes they had hulled corn for breakfast, with maple syrup, and sometimes Ma fried the soft kernels in pork drippings. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I was eating some corn chips at the time, so I was using voice commands to operate the image-analysis software. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And the rhythm of the family song was the grinding stone where Juana worked the corn for the morning cakes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z About 40 percent of their calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She looks down at the webby feet of her stockings, says, “I can cook corn pone.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One morning, while having breakfast, Mama said to Papa, “I’m almost out of corn meal. Do you think you can go to the mill today?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The words exploded in his head like corn against the sides of the popper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Kidney beans, peanuts, green and red chili peppers, sorrel, cress, and quinoa, yucca and cucumbers, and of course potatoes and corn were piled, steaming, into the people’s bowls. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z For this reason, an acre of mixed grasses can actually produce more carbohydrate and protein in a year than an acre of field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Early next day Ma put the shelled corn and the bag of ashes into the big iron kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the evening, the boy’s mother gave each of us an ear of corn. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They are filled with bread, corn, fish, meat, squash, and berries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Jinjoo narrowed her eyes and glared at Shinae, noticing how the older girl had taken two of the largest pieces of corn for herself and eaten them all. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z So she keeps the marchers' glasses filled, adds more corn bread and potato salad to their plates, stands in the kitchen ready to slice lemon pound cake into generous pieces. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Then he took off through the corn the same way the gobbler went, yelling like I was beating him with a stick. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept on rubbing and scrubbing the corn between her hands, and changing the water, until every hull came off and was washed away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I mow that corn, I said to myself, it will be like lighting the fuse on a stick of dynamite. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Experiments carried out about a decade ago showed that after treatment with this chemical there is a sharp increase in the nitrate content of corn and of sugar beets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ucho was sitting by himself, munching on a dried corn loaf. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It only takes a few weeks of work over a year to raise five hundred acres of industrial corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He struck out through the young corn, headed for the cabin. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t make cans of corn out of thin They passed through Harken Square, around the Gathering Hall, and down Roving Street, where three of the floodlights were out, making a cave of shadow. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could not taste or smell the feed corn or the petroleum or the antibiotics or the hormones—or the feedlot manure, even though I knew they were there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the country there were barns and silos stocked with grain and corn, and chicken houses full of eggs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But now I see that it is as if they are trading strawberries for rubies and corn for diamonds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And he didn’t listen to the corn anymore. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It turned out that corn was an excellent way to store and trade wealth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You should always listen to the corn. You don’t want it to get mad.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Good Friends, the Buddhist aid group with informants in the North, reported in 2009 that one soldier on a state farm was stabbed with a sickle during a fight over corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As big as Nathan’s forearms, the ears pulled the proud stalks of the corn into a downward bend, almost as if they were bowing with respect to Nathan himself. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Instead they might get a big container of corn or a cow. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet there is one winner in all of this—corn itself. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They made Pollen Boy right in the center of the white corn painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When she could not run any harder, any longer, she’d fallen from the thick jungle of corn plants onto a bare, grassy field, trees all around. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And wotsume’er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z My plan when I came to Iowa was to somehow follow George Naylor’s corn on its path to our plates and into our bodies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the pat of the corn- cakes in the house and the rich smell of them on the cooking plate. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers planted even more, corn prices began falling, and, with a few interruptions, they have been falling ever since. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This morning I crumbled some of the remaining corn bread in some milk and took it to him for breakfast. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We needed every ear of that corn if we wanted to make good on our homestead claim. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that he had willingly retreated to my room after the scolding Mom gave him about the corn and airplane. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After corn’s arrival in the eastern United States, seven centuries more passed before the development of a corn variety productive in North American climates triggered the Mississippian emergence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He trailed through the bush after her mother as she searched for late mushrooms, then sat on the cabin steps and patted the dropped corn kernels as she shucked a stack of cobs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The new genes don’t come from corn plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Stroll through Union Square, which, according to Google, features organic candy corn vendors, hint-hint”—Libby should just skip college, I swear to you—“and then walk down, uh...Fourth Avenue. Yeah.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “He says there is much corn, and ay, such sweet corn my brothers raise!” she went on. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As farmers produce more corn, the price falls even more! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Scientists have evidence that Indigenous peoples in Central Mexico cultivated corn ten thousand years ago, around 8000 BCE. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I could see her ordering the Ludington pigs to march in a straight line, or replanting their corn fields in orderly rows. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people in the village are risking their lives to steal corn from the nearby fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More men dead, and no corn brought back to James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Feeding corn to a steer changes the chemistry of the rumen, making it acid and causing a kind of heartburn that in some cases can kill the animal, but usu-ally just makes him sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This is how white corn came to be on earth, in honor of the star woman and her beautiful golden-white hair. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Willie and I brought the corn out on the deck to shuck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The tractor was dragging a spidery machine called an eight-row planter, which dropped corn seeds into the earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We just have to follow the main branches of the river of corn as it flows and divides through the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We even made up a commercial featuring the crispy corn dog. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “I am sorry I didn’t get us any corn tonight,” he says to all of us as he lays down, closes his eyes, and falls asleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie’s as excited as me to see the salad, corn, baked chicken, mashed potatoes with tons of gravy, and soft, buttery rolls. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z But when I try to help two girls with their pounding of corn into meal, Kainta, Chief Sasenticum’s son, pulls me away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As night fell over the hushed, shadowy hills of the countryside, I thought of the women in the camp, spending their days cooking with corn and rice, tending to their children, gossiping about camp life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Jody continued on through the large vegetable patch where the green corn was higher than his head. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pork chops, brown beans, corn on the cob, and biscuits sound good to you?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, grains. You want to know the names of some grains. Let's see, there's wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Like as not, all else her folks would have was fried fatback, cream gravy, and corn pone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Fiona’s home, larger than the cabin that Nathan and his father shared, sat neatly between several rows of corn and beans. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ma, I am going to go and get us some corn tonight.”With a determined look, Kim has made his decision. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Chemical fertilizer was needed to grow hybrid corn because it is a very hungry crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was no furniture except for a wooden platform with a corn husk mattress on top. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined dark clouds over the mobile home and fat raindrops pelting the cornfield, where his corn had grown five feet high. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She made him drink enough water to sink the battleship Missouri, fed him corn bread and beans, and then sent him to sleep in my bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She had walked to another county once, hoping to trade some fabric she had sewn into filters for straining liquid in exchange for corn we could eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, organic cows, like Rosie the organic chicken, are never fed corn that contains residues of atrazine, the herbicide commonly sprayed on American cornfields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, cranberry nut salad, corn pudding, gravy, cheese bread, and not one but two kinds of stuffing. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Stunned, I took the sicklelike corn knife Fowler thrust into my hands and let myself be herded out toward the cornfield. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I don't know what I'm trying to say anyway, so I check on our corn bread and find it risen and golden. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We don’t eat a lot of corn on the cob. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The stalks of corn and benne made a shushing sound. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes they talked about picking broom corn, and as they talked and laughed I could see the rows of green broom corn and I could smell the sweet scent it left in their sweaty work-clothes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s really a tremendous success story—for corn, anyway. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Judith’s salad contains cheese and eggs from corn- fed animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Teosinte still grows wild in some places in Central America, but if you saw it, you might not recognize it as the mother of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The food—fried okra, steamed corn on the cob, and pot roast that was so tender it fell right off the plastic fork—convinced me that Dolores was an even better cook than Maureen. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A clerk shoved in a measure of kernels and the corn whirled inside the case like giant flakes of snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Eang and the female cousins stay at home and make crepes, sweet cakes, and cookies from corn and wheat, which we exchange for rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We even grew a little patch of corn with seeds we’d brought from down south. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He ordered spareribs that came with corn- bread and potatoes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Scott popped a corn fritter into his mouth. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Oh! rang out across the field, the slaves set to work husking the corn, racing with each other, to see who could husk the most in the shortest possible time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If you wash down your chicken nuggets with almost any soft drink, you are drinking corn with your corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Just as we got up to the slabrock fence that Papa had built around the corn patch, I looked over and spotted this gobbler doing our pea-picking for us. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes barely registered the patchwork of corn and potato fields, or the dark hills covered in pine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The repellant effect of bursts of ultrasonic sound is being tested in Canada against corn borer and cutworm moths. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There’s the natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by the tractors, and the fuel needed to harvest, dry, and transport the corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But tonight is different. the food’s good, as usual— fettucine alfredo with jumbo shrimp, corn on the cob, garlic bread sticks— but, get this, no one’s saying a word. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I’d wake up at night scratching like I’d stumbled into a patch of bull nettles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Smells like sweet corn cooking, only better,” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Ma looked pretty, with her bare arms plump and white, her cheeks so red and her dark hair smooth and shining, while she scrubbed and rubbed the corn in the clear water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed at the corn plant, and BAM! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Luke Messenger pulls a pan of corn bread from the oven. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He fed the mare a handful of parched corn and lifted her unshod hooves to check for damage from the sharp lava rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was adding dried apples when he heard a suspicious noise, and moved a sack of dry corn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Not when he pulled the curtain and drew the sorceress up from the plank, not when the seed corn he’d piled on her stomach like peaches spilled off. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Someone had unearthed a stash of corn whiskey and cider, which circulated in due course and fed the spectators’ enthusiasm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z After Lynn ran into the field, I couldn’t see anything but corn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could grow under such conditions, and without corn, wheat, and hay livestock could not survive. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mere 700 miles of north—south distance prevented Mexican corn, squash, and beans from reaching the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I first see it, in my mind I place a circle of magic around the corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind whistled louder, rattling the corn, but I gritted my teeth and shook my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Turkey, mashed potatoes, greens, stuffing, cranberries, corn, biscuits, pies and cakes, and a special tea she made to go with it all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “These are nowhere near knee-high,” Bobby Gene said, wading into the corn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Well. Shall we have a look at those, ah, corns?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Engineering corn to resist pests wiped the original species from the face of the planet. Laws are too late for that,” she says, her eyes drilling into me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Even today, he said, you do not let corn lie on the ground. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One evening we actually chased a little boy who was eating two boiled ears of corn by himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The giant blue sky, the fields of po- tatoes and corn, the white houses with red tile roofs, the rocky canyons, the mountains towering overhead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Fern bowed her head low and grand over her plate of corn and string beans. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They would be laughing and talking and having such a romping big time, playing with the speckled pup, that before long I half wished I was able to gather corn, too. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides cotton, the new land went to potatoes and root crops for us and some more corn to feed livestock and ourselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I still lacked three or four corn rows being finished when sundown came and Jumper decided it was quitting time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn was a curious, dirty beige colour in the early light, and very still. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Before he had finished his breakfast of corn gruel, Rab arrived. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma looked up from her breakfast, scrapple and corn syrup with sides of bacon. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Finn stepped back into the corn to watch it go by. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bowls full of side dishes adorn the table: okra, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, greens, homemade bread. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll put shucked corn down in the barrel without any water,” I explained as we went out to bury the dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Every day, she would serve him the finest white corn boiled in sweet water from the lagoon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The colonists who recognized corn’s usefulness did well. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the United States the price of corn is usually below what it costs to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lower corn prices drive farmers out of business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A single planted corn seed could yield 150 to 300 fat kernels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The creatures were trembling with weakness as they frantically nibbled their kernels of corn. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Salvador said the sight of so much corn on the ground made him feel sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The smart crows and redwing blackbirds knew when their chances of getting a bite of corn had improved! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She thought about telling him that, along with the roast, there'd been mashed potatoes and creamed corn, his new favorite. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Thomas and Zart were weeding a long row of young corn when Thomas decided it was a good time to start asking questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Aside from enormous smiles, the couple ignored them and began to plant a row of corn. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “The corn is beginning to come up,” I said. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Mix black mountain dirt some sweet corn flour and a little water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And Mrs. Sylvester was surely at her desk, typing, the giant jar of candy corn in front of her trembling slightly from the hum and clatter of the electric typewriter. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z But that number only includes the corn that looks like corn—corn on the cob, or corn out of a can, or corn chips. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I began with that field and tried to trace the corn as it traveled across the country, first to my supermarket and then to my stomach. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He moved boulders around his yard on weekends, ate twelve ears of corn in one sitting, and kept barrels full of oysters in his garage so he could shuck and eat them anytime he wanted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Inside there’s a bag of Boomchickapop kettle corn, a bottle of pineapple-coconut water, a can of Axe body spray in Peace scent, and a card Britain and Golly helped me with. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Give me that corn, you bandit,” he said and, laughing happily to see his old friend again, picked her up and hugged her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Let’s take a look at people and corn in the area that is now Mexico and Central America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I lay there and listened to the corn shucks squeak when I breathed and to the owls hooting in the timber along Birdsong Creek. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the 1980s almost all sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket are sweet ened with something called high-fructose corn syrup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He pulled one of them apart and said, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I swear, the more I wear pageant heels, the more I can see corns and bunions in my future. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His dad is at the sink, shucking ears of corn and humming along to an old Chente record. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Really it is not the dirt itself that keeps us going, but the maíz, the corn, along with pumpkins and frijoles, which spurts up from it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom portioned grilled chicken wings with barbecue sauce, corn bread, and steamed broccoli onto three plates, and set them out on the table. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z When Chief Powhatan sends word that he will trade for corn, Captain Ratcliffe goes strutting around the fort, full of his own importance. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Dad, musing into his glass of corn bread and milk, said nothing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A piece of corn casing was stuck to the side of Sumac’s beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We picked crab apples and wild blackberries and pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson’s farm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I asked George Naylor why he doesn’t grow something besides corn, and he laughed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All told, more than a thousand Cherokee homes were laid waste during that winter and some fifty thousand bushels of corn and other provisions either burned or looted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I had a chicken—a great treat for us in those days—stuffed with oysters, boiled potatoes, corn pudding, some of Momma’s canned beans, rolls, and a hot peach cobbler. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Traditions related to corn are practiced throughout the Indigenous agricultural areas of North America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cybulskis shrugged, raising her hands, which were full of corn husks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Yar came home with some dried beans and corn and sorghum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood by the stove, sifting the yellow corn meal from her fingers into a kettle of boiling, salted water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Belgian rises to close the window, the scent of all this reaches him: the storm, the ditch, the woman with the corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The crows spread over the corn with cries of greed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “She told me a story about her cousin’s dog who ate corn right off the stalks in her grandaddy’s garden and got so sick he almost died.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Crispy corn dog: it makes you young again,” I joke. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Every hour of every day a tractor trailer pulls up to the loading dock to deliver another fifty tons of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Me: Dad: “It tasted a bit watery, so I kept adding thickener. I put in some corn and peas.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “It could be chicken, corn, wheat, or soy.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It certainly smelled wonderful when I raised the lid on the barbecue to put the corn on. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One night I dream of the corn plant. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for her on the table was hot-water corn bread smeared with the apple preserves. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It meant growing more corn for their feed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s turn now to corn in the area of the continent that we know today as the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I had no way of knowing if it was George or some other farmer who grows the corn that feeds the steer that becomes my steak. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It dates back over a hundred years, before all corn was just “corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It happened everywhere now, farms raided at night, raided of corn so tender they had not yet formed kernels and yams so young they were barely the size of a cocoyam. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "Barbecue sauce is what I want,” James said, "and some corn on the cob and some watermelon for dessert or a sundae, a chocolate sundae. I wish we had that.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was worth it to the butterflies flying over the corn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Fields of corn ripened under a bright sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I had eaten a bowl of corn mush at sunrise and only dumplings at midday. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed him by the wrist and yanked him up out of that water and slung him toward Mama like he was a half-empty sack of corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I carried the pieces home in my pockets and stuck them on a sharp-pointed stick which I kept hanging in the corn crib. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As mementos, visitors stole ears of corn from the field and sawed young fruit trees into pieces of wood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No one had tasted corn yet this year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Corn has managed to become the most widely planted crop in America—more than 80 million acres of farmland are planted with corn every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z So with human help, corn can now take genes from other plants and animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Traders in Africa paid for slaves with corn and then fed slaves corn when they were brought here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Like wind on growing corn, a rippling murmur came from all the little girls in the audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed, now, that he was watching the big muscular man who had tried to get me to dance—the same man who had spoken to me at the corn husking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z With that, Clay and his friends headed toward the north fields, where the corn was grown, whooping like children as they galloped off. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom always planted a row of corn even though that was a bit of a fool’s errand. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Back we go, avalanching rocks as we scramble up the shaley streambed and arrive at the embankment where we had seen an ear of corn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At first we drove them around town ourselves, but my husband, Franklin, he’s got a bad back, so we decided to plant them, just like corn, and let folks come to us.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It is the raw material out of which the industrial food chain makes beef or chicken or high-fructose corn syrup or maltodextrin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If you lived in Mexico you ate rice, beans, and corn tortillas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Succotash—okra, corn, tomatoes, and peppers—sliced, diced, boiled, then fried. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “So, can you get me some dry corns at the store where you work?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Next: the tiny town of Logan on Logan Street, and then Highway 20, with its flat yellow fields of alfalfa and corn and barley and wheat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And then she shoved the whole handful of candy corn in her mouth. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Granny never would let him keep his corn whiskey at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It doesn’t include the billions the government spends to subsidize corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The supply of corn is usually far greater than the demand for corn, so new uses must be found for it all the time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A nurse brought Doha a cup of hot corn tea that he blew on and drank as quickly as possible. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Never until November. And the corn will be ready in October—maybe September.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Her long black hair disappeared into the corn as she chased the dog. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The blessing of that corn pollen helped keep me calm and balanced and safe. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The starch that holds it together is corn starch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She picked up the now-dirty corn, wrapped it up, and gently led Doha away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z All three of us had paper plates with microwaved corn dogs and big piles of ketchup and mustard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “He has more corn than the Iowa State Fair.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In some years nearly half the income of America’s corn farmers comes from government checks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Across the tomato field, and then across the next field, where young corn made a narrow path for them to follow, they ran. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her family had raised sugar beets, cattle, hay, and corn. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She told Stella to heat the butter, toss a half cup of the popping corn in, cover it, and wait for the pop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But the small plant of corn, my deep heart knows, it is my true sign. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Three corns and one roast raven,” said Dolorous Edd. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The only reason they need the drugs is because they are being raised on factory farms and fed corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I also told him that the variety of corn we were eating was called Golden Bantam. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The hay was sale and the corn would be ripe in a week. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not only did they save the corn today, but they caught and plucked our dinner! They are hunters!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It was, in fact, a yellowish-brownish-green: a bit of a corn shuck. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The answer is a little complicated, but it boils down to this: The price of corn is kept low by government policies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Other people, too, had good crops, except for Snail, who spent his time cutting back weeds and examining the ground to see when the corn would grow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z No one could have guessed that under that stern facade her stomach was doing flip-flops as Doctor Wexler cut out a corn. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m going to find a feed store and I’m going to walk to it and buy dry corns. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nali stepped out of the mobile home with her big jar of multicolored corn kernels and a cup that was steaming in her other hand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z So I had left off hog hunting and started getting ready to gather corn when Bud Searcy paid us another visit. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I close my eyes real tight-like and picture the spread her mom’s made: chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and buttered corn, all with a side of love. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In 2003, a study by University of California, Davis, researchers studied two crops of corn, strawberries, and blackberries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “If I were home, the corn would be ripe, and the apples would be starting to grow on the trees. The wheat fields would be golden.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Real deep ones,” said the man, laying corn mush on the table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There were lots of green snap beans, stalks of yellow sweet corn, Sea Island red peas, crookneck squash, benne seeds, and purple okra that looked like fingers reaching for the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I took another bite of corn dog and stared at the patch of dead grass under my feet, chewing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She filled a clean washtub with cold water from the spring, and she dipped the corn out of the kettle into the tub. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We have grown them the way Namontack taught us, planting the corn and beans together in a mound, so that the bean plants can climb the cornstalks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I need to see a shock of corn.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In a flash, done so quickly that she did not realize it until afterward, the one wearing a blue beret grasped her basket, took the tin of corned beef, and ran off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And it means even more corn on top of the bulging mountain of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Read the label on any processed food, and corn is what you’ll find. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They hurried to the field, climbed onto their platforms, and shooed away what few birds had settled in the corn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z That was ’zactly the kind of corn Ma would dish out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Did you tell him to mow the new corn down?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You could ask Stephen to get you some corn.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So early the next morning, I set out with Old Yeller, glad for the chance to hunt hogs a while longer before starting in on the corn gathering. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Dried corn is easy to transport and almost indestructible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Farmers had corn growing in fields and fields around here, but for some reason trying to grow one small row of it never worked out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The corn had been harvested and now the field was once again empty. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He also feeds them a mixture of corn, toasted soybeans, and kelp, which we scooped into long troughs in their pens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Outside the window, there’s still nothing but corn. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that the corn might be some kind of crow's food store, in which he was seen as an invader. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She walked ahead, digging a hole with her stick and dropping in three corn kernels from her own sling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A farm of corn and soybeans doesn’t require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The only way to make sure your plants produce the same amount of corn—that they have the same yield as the original hybrid—is to buy new seed every year from a seed company. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Maize is just another word for white corn, and by the end of this story, you won’t believe how much you know about corn. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z All I find are a bag of corn and a box of waffles so old I think they’ve been there since before Olga died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Our corn, or maize, has been bred for ten thousand generations to be more tasty and nutritious than its scrawny ancestors; indeed, it is so changed that it cannot even reproduce without human intervention. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon, we sent word at a plantation chosen by what means I know not, requesting they should deal with us fairly and present us with corn, livestock, and other sundry provisions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z GMO corn is not bred the old-fashioned way, by crossing corn plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When I used to look outside my bedroom window on summer mornings, I saw nothing but corn and blue sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He led us all the way to an intersection where the paved road met a dirt road that disappeared off into the corn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I guess they knew that six boys would jump on their son for two ears of corn only if they were desperately hungry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Refrain: Turn out here and shuck this corn, Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At that point it is no longer George Naylor’s corn—it becomes part of the vast river of corn flowing out of the Midwest toward your supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was a network of Indigenous nations, a network of peoples of the corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Did corn somehow sneak into Washington and change the laws? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In order to win her hand, the devil told him he had to clear an enormous field, plant corn, then harvest it, all in one day. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In time the place was homier than his own room at the Y. “How ’bout a corn muffin?” said Grayson, choosing something easy on his bad teeth and aching gums. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I should have known that tracing a single bushel of industrial corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it’s been poured into a river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the 154 miles from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana, there are only three large towns, and the 240 miles across Ohio are primarily pasture, hay, and row crops of corn. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.45. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She sped up to a jog, heading for the green hills filled with wildflowers so tall and thick they waved like new corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Shin remembers confessing to eating corn he found on the ground and to taking a catnap when no one was looking. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And whatever it was had eaten away the corn. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Baba and Ali had planted a small vegetable garden along the eastern wall: tomatoes, mint, peppers, and a row of corn that never really took. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the morning chill, I put a bundle of corn on my back and walked down with Jorge and some other villagers to sell it in town. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When prices fall, the only way they can stay in business is to find a way to grow even more corn or soy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Olanna stood still and cried silently because the corned beef had never been hers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, at last, they had hulled corn and milk for supper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Although these practices vary from one community to the next, at the core of each dance, of each song, of each prayer is a commemoration of the gift of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The first crop planted from hybrid corn seed will all be identical. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He gathered mounds of fried potatoes, canned sweet corn, and Spam with Nali’s fresh tortillas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Conquered, or conqueror, they all had one thing in common: they cultivated corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She backed down the tunnel entrance to her house tail first, pulling the corn after her and calling cheerfully as she went: “Children! Wake up! See what I have for breakfast. A surprise!” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A woman strides alongside the ditch under her basket of roasted corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with rotten fruit and corn silk, their fermented scent lacing the more pleasant aromas of sizzling sausages and beer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Scythe Chomsky used his flamethrower to set a corn maze ablaze, smoking people out to be picked off one by one by the other scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The corn shuld be laid down in the Lower medow now, I reckon it is, Toms a good boy, you tell him That. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z More than their mother, really, who had shucked them off like corn husks to follow her craziness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I asked the counter man if ducks eat dry corns. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From the bluff, I could see our place, a field of corn torn up, the hay rising up, fields of corn growing green in the sun. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They settled in villages and planted corn and squash, bush beans and berries. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But above all, I want corn on the cob. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And the fruits were secured through the bashing of children with stovewood, through hot iron peeling skin away like husk from corn. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It only gives us the kinds of cheap food made from corn and soy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Almost every day we ate canned ravioli with either canned peas or canned corn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z "There's corn bread to go with it. And butter and honey." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He’s probably in a soup monger’s somewhere in Flushing, sipping corn tea. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Davi is a lazy girl. I can work faster and pick more corn in less time than she can.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wheel tracks of buckboards replaced the trails, and fields of corn and barley and wheat squared out of the yellow mustard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “All right...Sweet holy shitstickers, it tastes like you're washing down a bite of corn with a pint of lighter fluid.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Mama had come in too late from the corn gathering to go look for her before dark, and the next morning she didn’t need to. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Who decided that corn would be our main food? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Right then, he’d swing around and head for the cabin, dragging down corn with the plow and paying no mind whatever to my hauling back on the reins and hollering “Whoa!” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But maize, or corn, had no loyalties to the Maya and other people who had helped it spread. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Guards brought him whole steamed ears of corn, along with corn porridge and cabbage soup. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On his second day back at school, Shin walked with his class to a camp farm to gather corn straw and haul it to a threshing floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I'm reminded of those last few kernels that burst when Prim and I pop corn over the fire at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His farm lay in the river plain and was already alive with shoots of new corn. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There was much more corn, stretching downhill, away and away, and for as far as he could see it was all eaten at the edges, in the curious half-moons. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She had guided these corn plants and worked hard and she was not, now, going to give up the winter’s dried corn soup to a flock of birds, no matter how hungry they were. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z After dinner, I didn’t wait for Mama to tell me that I needed to finish running out the corn middles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z People in Central America cook corn with lime and serve it with beans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They are really corn wrapped up in more corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We would then sit around, eating the ears of corn and telling tall tales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This new corn “fraction” has food makers very excited because—it can’t be digested! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Minutes later they were sitting inside the old blue van, eating corn tortillas and drinking coffee from the thermos. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There was a half acre of green corn that Mom had planted. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The oil comes mostly from the Middle East, the corn comes from Iowa, the beef is slaughtered has to be shipped by truck across the country to a Wal-Mart or McDonald’s near you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z While they were eating, teasing, commenting on the soup, flavored with low-growing juniper berries and parched hot summer corn, something happened that disturbed everyone and changed the course of the winter. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z People also found it cheaper to feed corn to chickens and hogs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how she fed him day after day and night after night from the same cob of corn, but he was full and content. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Indigenous peoples are portrayed as having helped make the country great by sharing corn, beans, buckskin, log cabins, parkas, maple syrup, canoes, and even the basic concepts of democracy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The corn had been stacked in a great mound. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z We live on rice, soy sauce, canned corn. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “You can replant that whole field of corn, tend to it, harvest it, and turn it into food for poor old folks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Besides, Naylor has the equipment to plant corn and soybeans, he doesn’t have the equipment to grow that lettuce or broccoli—or anything else. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When it came time to eat my industrial food chain meal, since it was impossible to follow Naylor’s corn or steer 534 directly to my plate, I had a lot of choices. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He took to jumping the field fence and eating the corn that I’d never yet gotten around to gathering. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z That was okay too, because now I got all the chicken and the vegetables in the soup with warm corn tortillas and my mother’s sopa de arroz. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z As the first big drops began to splatter down on the leaves of the corn plants, making loud rattling sounds, Josiah motioned for Tayo to walk to the truck with him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember that at Pinyudu I could always hear the sound of pounding, as people pounded the dry corn kernels into meal to boil. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he said he meant to do something—like keep his corn whiskey in your closet or marry Miss Love Simpson—if you couldn’t say yessir, you sure-dog didn’t say no sir. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I loved all the sounds and smells of the festival—corn dogs and kettle corn and chili and funnel cakes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Too bad you didn’t put that much thought into not mowing down my corn.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z No, it was worse than the grown-up talk he was used to, because all his parents ever talked about was the corn harvest and bills and the likelihood of frost at the end of May. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Out in the fields, where he weeded and harvested from August to October, he snacked on corn, cabbage, and other vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It took two or three days to make hulled corn. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The small opening kept the corn safe from rodents. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the meat singed and slightly burnt, she cleaned the beavers, washed their carcasses with salted water and stuffed them with corn and potatoes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z From that time on they were so busy playing around with that Ck’o’yo magic they neglected the mother corn altar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They went out into the kitchen and fixed up the hot fish and corn muffins and ate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “And thank you for the candy corn,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z More often than not the sacks bore the name of the farm where the corn had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was driving the Cadillac, taking some corn and squash and tomatoes to old Mr. Slocum, who was laid up with a bad back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If the corn could, it would laugh at us, the humans eating and drinking it as fast as they can. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Needless to say, the results of all this work are now jeopardized as the enemies of the corn borer are killed off by the sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’d see them drive past the cabin, all three of them sitting of top of a cartload of corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The catch is that hybrid corn does not “come true.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We survived on the small bit of food that Yar had managed to take away with her from Pinyudu—a little dried corn and lentils. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They feed the corn to livestock and then slaughter the corn-fattened animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mary was aware of the smell of roasting corn, and the warm smell of the mulefa themselves—part oil, part warm flesh, a sweet horselike smell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I tried husking corn and blistered my slow clumsy hands while experienced field hands sped through the work effortlessly, enjoying themselves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Just inside the door, he discovered three ears of dried corn and devoured them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The third field was of thick corn, almost ripe. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And its deck was already loaded up with baskets and crates heaped with corn and potatoes and cherries. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The ground is so wet that farmers grow rice between their rows of corn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Out of each spigot flows a different product made from corn, called “fractions” by the food industry. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the camp, when his teacher beat a six-year-old classmate to death for having five grains of corn in her pocket, Shin confessed to the congregation that he “didn’t think much about it.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We can trace this back to the year 1980—an important year in the history of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I hold out my arms like the plant of corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It was an immense pile of corn—left out in the rain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Corn-based food does offer cheap calories, if you don’t count the billions the government spends to support cheap corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And chess would give them both a way to kill time between their half cans of string beans and their half cans of corn. chapter 8 S^nda.^, The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When the river thaws, I will paddle across to visit him in the Warraskoyack village and trade for corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She would save some to make sandwiches and she and Odenigbo and Baby would have an English-style tea with corned beef sandwiches. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The weather was warm and dry, ideal for ripening a field of wheat or corn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Europeans presented a way for corn to spread even farther. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The salad’s grilled chicken breast is injected with a “flavor solution” that’s also full of corn products. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z ‘So I invented a fourth difficulty level: idiot mode. It makes the corns so stupid it’s funny. They always choose exactly the wrong thing to do.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Poor farmers who gave sacks of potatoes or corn for treatment or medicine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I had decided to plant corn as my grain rather than wheat, oats or barley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But just two days later, the good feelings evaporated when immigrant workers at the nearby Argo corn refinery walked out and six hundred black nonunion men marched in to take their places. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On his flabby shoulders he had wispy blond hairs that flowed in the wind like corn silk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mama Santoni donned an apron and led the women in shucking corn. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Men and women are selling fruit and corn from carts. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In a few months, the corn grew long, hiding that whole field that used to be for our pigs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Rising, I could see the dusty cloud of horns and backs trampling through our corn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Our corn had been picked that morning, just a short drive away. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was a cutting table marked up with scratches and gouges next to a register, though getting there was like navigating a Halloween corn maze. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She let Biddy give her corn and water, but hiss and peck when Biddy go to pet her. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Into a large gourd they placed her cut hair and head dyes, okra, ashes, and wisps of dried corn silks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweeping stray ashes from the hearth, beating at the stones, she was so rough that shards of corn husk broke from the broom’s bottom. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The idea of it still had me laughing as I headed through the torn up corn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris took a huge pumpkin and a huge ear of corn and a bunch of cornstalks that touched the ceiling in the high exhibit room. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Then I stopped by the hoop house and harvested a dozen ears of sweet corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One of the strangest parts of the industrial food chain is the way it forces some animals to eat corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But there were more plump ears on the traditional corn. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Yet that number is a tiny fraction of all the corn produced in the United States. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Running home, he asked his grandmother for some corn, and she gave him four ears wrapped in a white cloth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Velia and Delia purchased piping hot ears of corn on a stick, wrapped in their own leaves and enveloped in newspapers to keep them warm. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We strolled along the walkway between the road and the beach, past pushcarts piled high with corn and peanuts and hawkers selling multicolored plastic balls and cricket bats, flimsy kites, toys, dolls, pinwheels. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes we bought her smoked corn on the cob sprinkled with lemon juice, or two paisa caramels. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “My cousin got lucky and won some Indian land in the lottery, in the north part of Tennessee. Grows corn.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Around and around they stirred the corn in an iron kettle over a low fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, Zeebo, right now. You can come help me turn my car around. I’d be in the corn patch before long.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The next day we came to a village, and the people there gave our group a gourd for water, dried kernels of corn to boil for food, and a pot to cook in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z All they knew was that they were losing meat out of their smokehouses, eggs out of their hens’ nests, and sometimes even whole pans of corn- bread that the womenfolks had set out to cool. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I leap across the stream on the rocks, the squirrel runs, and I pick up his ear of corn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I settle into my nest with a bag of candy corn and the blood-sucking monster. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Since that time 24 species of parasites of the corn borer have been brought in from Europe and the Orient at considerable expense. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She learned about the four humors that govern the body, how to plant corn by moonlight, and where the Antipodes are. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I stack a plate with some ribs, wings, and corn on the cob. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Nathan factored into his data collection the fact that the modern corn in the square shape had two more weeks to grow than the traditional corn in the circular shape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He thought of the corn his grandmother had been going to give him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We would still go back there, wading through the young stalks, but as the corn grew higher and taller and stronger, it covered over all of those memories. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But it is in soft drinks that we consume most of our fifty-eight pounds of high-fructose corn syrup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The birds eyes glittered greedily as they tore into each plump ear of corn and pecked at the juicy young kernels. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The evening of his departure, Nathan watched the tall stalks of corn sway in the wind. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She said, “Do you think there’s candy corn at the county home?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Let’s take a look, shall we? Poultry by-product meal, soy protein isolate, corn gluten meal, soy flour...” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Gosh, look how white they are,” said Pink, poking one with a corn cob. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Also she went to the princes of Eleusis who had built her temple and she chose one, Triptolemus, to be her ambassador to men, instructing them how to sow the corn. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought spare ribs, buttered corn, French fries, and a Pepsi-Cola. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He would stir a little water into corn meal and give it to his father. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I took her down to the grocery store yesterday and paid for a cartful of charity food to make up for the corn she was going to trade for groceries.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The girls and women answered back as they scattered the corn seeds into the turned soil. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Then he pressed the metallic bar to his lips and started blowing and sucking, moving the harmonica back and forth like a cartoon character eating corn on the cob. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then in the 1930s seed companies came up with a new kind of corn seed—hybrid corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I had met him a few times when we were taking some corn to the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, we rushed on the boy at the same time, and before he knew what was happening, we had taken the corn from him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The richest acre of Iowa soil could never feed thirty thousand hungry corn plants year after year without added fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The cobs of the corn they had dried and eaten and they stripped the bark from trees and all over the countryside people were eating what grass they could find upon the wintry hills. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When the corn meal turned into a watery yellow porridge, it was time for dinner. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a giant variety of food, I saw corn hiding in every aisle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Beekman and merchants like him shipped flour, bread, corn, salted beef, and wood to the Caribbean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I would come into the kitchen and they would be standing shoulder to shoulder at the sink, holding ears of corn they couldn’t get shucked for talking. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet feeding corn to cattle goes against the natural order almost as much feeding them beef. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I turned and slashed furiously at the corn stalk, then at the next. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She opened up the green carrying bag and put the corn on the table, dividing it into five equal shares. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But the sheer corn of it got them and the Hot Foot Squad went shuffling along. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed aside the cloth sitting on top of a basket of roasted ears of corn and passed him some. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But if they planted seed from that first crop, yields dropped again, since the second generation of corn was not identical to the first. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She finished eating her corn, and so did the others. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He scurried across the deck and hid himself between two big baskets of corn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “What else you know how to do sides corn pone?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Animals that never ate corn before must be taught to eat it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most of it is processed and sold by the same industrial food chain as the corn from George Naylor’s farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z While the corn finished roasting, I removed the chicken from the grill and set it aside to rest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Today’s hybrid corn is bred to keep its sweetness over long-distance transport. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mom poured a box of corn bread mix into a bowl along with eggs and milk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Growing corn and nothing but corn has also damaged the soil of our farmlands, polluted the water, and threatened the health of all the creatures downstream. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The headlights creep through the tall stalks, illuminating a leaf here, an ear of corn there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Once I counted mine: There were 75 pieces of corn and 15 beans—so little it barely covered the plate. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke made it over to Jen’s only once in all of February, and twice in March, when Dad began driving around looking for the best seed corn prices. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Pancakes and corn syrup, fried ham and potatoes and onions, anything you wanted and as much. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Lit windows, smoke from the chimneys, bunches of brightly colored corn affixed to the front doors as decoration for the upcoming Harvest Festival. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z How much corn did Judith, Isaac, and I consume in our McDonald’s meal? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Roast chicken, chips, sweet corn and chicken soup, two parathas and vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rich black soil along the lakeshore, he grew tall sweet corn and large, luscious tomatoes, both perpetual challenges to Seattle gardeners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While Mom carves the turkey, Dad dishes the carrots and corn and mashed potatoes and gravy into their respective bowls, and I fill the water glasses with ice cubes and water. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He carried a basket of corn on his arm to throw off any Union troops he might encounter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have time to harvest the corn and vegetables we had planted near our huts. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry, Miles, and Amos had rescued them, got into a fight with the bullies—like with real punches flying—and then they all escaped through a corn maze. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But her sister Corn Woman worked hard all day sweating in the sun getting sore hands in the corn field. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I ducked down low and ran between two rows of tall stalks until I couldn’t see nothing around me but corn plants. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When cattle, chickens, and other animals eat grass—and not just corn or other grains—they are actually healthier for us to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The counters were loaded with cut vegetables, and Diego’s sister stood by the sink, shucking corn. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At the sound of its name the corn seemed to grow taller, greener, thicker, reaching upward, alive alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She helped hoe the corn patch almost every day, and never complained. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mama couldn’t let that go on; that was our bread corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat on a gunny sack full of the corn that Robert and Josiah had dried last year, and when he shifted his weight even slightly, he could hear the hard kernels move. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This is what Lynn said in her diary from that day: The corn was so pretty. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He had been served a watery corn soup, the same tasteless gruel he had eaten every day of his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You mean gold doubloons or those cheesy corn puffs?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The cows are fed corn just like the cows at Poky, but their feed is organic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I look down at them, as if they were utterly black and blue as a Oaxaca storm—and tender as new corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z During “weeding combat,” which occurred between June and August, primary school students worked from four in the morning until dusk pulling weeds in corn, bean, and sorghum fields. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I’m thinking of buying the Parkers old homestead and using the fields for additional corn for the whiskey, since our small distillery has become quite popular. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There ’mongst the rows of his ma’s beets and corn and green peas were some of the strangest markings I’d ever seen. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn’t until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And yet, by 2100 BCE, the Hohokam peoples of that area had traded for, and were cultivating, corn, beans, squash, and cotton. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The next dawn, Willis was at the dock with him, loading in a jug, some cheese sandwiches, and some corn muffins, then casting him loose, waving him out into the incoming tide. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a processed food today that isn’t made from corn or soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "Pepperidge Farm original? Or Pepperidge Farm corn bread?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He came over and slipped a tin of corned beef into her basket and then hurried away as if he had done nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Still dissatisfied, he went to the military school from time to time to throw corn at the cadets, shouting through the fence that they were all a bunch of chickens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I say my part, “You can do anything with a crispy corn dog. It slices. It dices.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Now they are gathered together in great eating camps, where they consume the mounting pile of surplus corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His face appeared between some stalks, the top of the corn looking like it was growing out of his ear. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The robust corn in the fields, already two feet high, pointed to an exuberant harvest; with equal force the ruined territory had advertised reckonings to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We never fed them, unless maybe it was a little corn that we threw to them during a bad spell in the winter. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “The corn muffins are the same ones from last year. Never, never touch the rice pudding.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z If that means forcing cows to eat corn, even when it is unnatural for them, then that is what must be done. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A pinch of corn meal lay white on the palm; he breathed on it, murmured a few words, then threw it, a handful of white dust, towards the sun. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z People moved up and down the rows gathering corn, squashes, tomatoes or cucumbers into bushel baskets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We had certainly done our parts in chomping through the corn surplus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I just feel it in my bones,” she confided, “that something wonderful is going to happen tonight at the corn husking.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, items that come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She leaned over to pick up an ear of corn, and when she looked for him, he was moving away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the cultivation of corn was at the core of Mayan culture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If anyone seemed alive at the moment it was the serene Amaranta, who had even had enough time to cut her corns. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A little of the corn was trodden down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, green beans with almonds, orange salad, corn bread and cream of asparagus soup. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed them how to plant corn and how to live on the edge of the wilderness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And quick as that”—she snapped her fingers— “he stopped and cut on over ’cross the road, steppin’ over to her like a tall turkey in short corn. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Their goal is to turn corn into beef. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With those words, Ma goes outside to cook our corn on a fire we started earlier in the evening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some allowed their toddlers to eat hot dogs and corn chips; others served whole-grain everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They said they needed the girls to help them pick corn for a special event. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The stalks of corn swung high and low, back and forth, like someone too big to squeeze down the rows was forcing them apart. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The tooth looked like one of those Halloween candy corns that had been boiled in sewage. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Across the highway, behind the bar at Cerritos, there was a big corn field, but the plants were short and thin, and their leaves were faded yellow like the grasshoppers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A tall, long-haired kid in front of me grinned as a lunch lady dropped a spoonful of something yellow that looked like creamed corn onto his tray. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z With prices like that, how can Naylor and the other corn farmers stay in business? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He rolled fresh mountain tobacco in a dried corn husk. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Year after year they plant corn, paint houses, fix cars or work at seasonal jobs and live off welfare in the off-seasons. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t trust them Indians. Don’t you know we poisoned their corn? What if she trying to poison you?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But my corn grew tall and golden, my potatoes were abundant. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Joe had piled his plate high with meat loaf and potatoes and creamed corn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There is plenty of dog food in the store, but of course I have none up here, so I gave him a piece of corn bread and some canned hash. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His grandma had only four Sunday dinners in her repertoire—chicken- fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, pot roast, and corned beef—but they were all good. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Why does Joel want fermented corn in his manure pile? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You and I think of corn as corn, but farmers like Naylor know there are dozens of varieties, most created by large agribusiness companies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Another corner of the compound held gardens—from where he was standing Thomas recognized corn, tomato plants, fruit trees. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He could dive into the corn—backtrack, sidetrack. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She put her hand deep into the candy corn. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Salvador’s reaction, like mine, came about because we were looking at corn the old-fashioned way, as a food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z High-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, is by far the biggest food output of the country’s wet mills. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The result is a hybrid—a disease-resistant plant that produces a lot of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The germ is then squeezed for corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It’s even part of the supermarket building, because the wallboard, the flooring, and many other building materials are made with corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The corn was a little green,” Shady said apologetically. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She spooned three bowls of steaming food for them—corn pudding and roasted rabbit—acting as if greeting strangers was what she did every morning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn seed we were planting looked like regular kernels of corn, but it was actually something called Pioneer Hi-Bred 34H31. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He come to the field, pull two ears of corn, let the birds and weevil eat two hundred. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They point to a big flat rock where a squirrel is now stuffing kernels from another ear of corn in his cheeks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn was tough—Old Man Wilson grew it as feed for his cattle—but if you chewed it enough, you could get it down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Since corn sweetener was now so cheap, why not get people to pay just a few pennies more for a bigger bottle? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You simply did not find cans of peaches and applesauce and creamed corn on the back shelves of markets. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s too much corned beef and white wheaten bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited, cursing under my breath till they fixed it — they ground my corn, and took their cut. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Like drums, like the men singing for the corn, like magic, the words repeated and repeated themselves in his head. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And eating corn and beans together supplies all the amino acids humans need. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The old man dry-farmed beans and some corn two years hand running, but during those two years the rains never came, or they came too late, and his crops failed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn needed hoeing, and Lurvy didn’t find time to hoe it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z "Good morning, Kiddie Klubbers, it's Uncle Harry—" He rushed in and snapped off the set just as a fat man with a false nose began pouring corn flakes into the screen. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When Finn reminded him that, duh, of course the corn was alive, all plants were alive, Miguel replied that the corn sounded alive alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The cow is by nature not a corn eater. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Pumblechook was in favour of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I boiled them, toasted the last of the corn bread, made some coffee, and opened a can of tomato juice. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I paused to take a bite of the corn muffin on my plate. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Beyond the fields of half-grown corn, a farmhouse jutted up against the landscape. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The first thing corn did was push aside the European crops the new settlers brought with them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He threw them a little dusty hay and sprinkled some cracked corn over it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Now the corn began to push out people too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Fields of tall corn stretched into the distance wherever you looked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It still makes money because, people or no people, the corn keeps coming, more of it every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When I dashed into the barn, the sheep scattered in all directions like corn popping. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There certainly wasn’t any corn for them to steal. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A lot of them are trying to get away from the kingdom of corn and processed foods by buying organic food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Later on, when Kakuma was well established, the Turkana gathered firewood in the forests to trade with us for corn or clothes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves had mounded the com up, higher, higher, higher, dark hands lifting the ears of corn, slight rustle from the ears, two or three hundred slaves moving around the great stack. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “American food to the left. Burgers, corn dogs, fries.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z That’s why food companies spend so much on advertising—to convince us they really have added value to the corn and soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mother was looking far off into the distance, to where the rows of new corn plants met the horizon. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z They had dry, brittle wings like corn- husks, and tufts of white hair like corn silk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it is not good at digesting corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “How is the planting? Has the garden come up? And the corn?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s a great lump of quivering gray fat and the only sign of corned beef is a little nipple of red meat on top. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They d hollow a hole in a log and put the corn in there, then pound and grind it with a heavy stick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We greeted everyone, and Mom placed the bowl of bean and corn salad she’d made on the counter, which was already covered with enough food to feed more than six people. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Since it didn’t have to stand up to the stress of a cross-country trip, we were able to enjoy this corn the way it was supposed to taste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By myself, I’d have been run to death and still probably wouldn’t have saved the corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He apparently reasoned that if you could make fine spirits from common corn and the lowly potato, why not the princely pecan? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Estimate how many pieces of candy corn are in this jar and win it all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z All there is to store work is watchin’ out for rice weevils and rotten potatoes, and keepin’ the rats out of the seed corn.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I waited there in the corn, expecting Mama or Jay to come looking for me and tell me to come back home. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I am getting greedier and greedier with the thought that two of us can bring home more corn than Kim can by himself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a side dish, sweet corn was a no-brainer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had spoken to me at the corn husking, and again at Christmas. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Scientists can use a machine called a spectrometer to look at the carbon in food and tell how much of it came from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Nathan’s hot dogs. New York pastrami, corned beef, baked pretzels, NewYork Italian ices, and don’t forget”—he pauses, dramatic—“Manhattan clam chowder.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As yields grew and farmers grew more corn, prices dropped. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He picked his way about the farm carts, the piles of whitish green cabbages, baskets of yellow corn, rows of plump, pale, plucked turkeys, orange pumpkins, country cheeses—big as a baby’s head. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I would follow along planting corn or potatoes in the furrows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There,” the man huffed, wagging his finger at the corn plant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For supper, now, they often had hulled corn and milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When Lupita came out in the morning to fix the family breakfast, beans piled into corn tortillas, she found Salvador asleep on the floor, rolled into a blanket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z First thing Deydey noticed was the corn, how tall it had grown, how the rain had plumped up the ears, what a good crop they had this year. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She didn’t even back off when Mama hooked Jumper to the cart and headed for the field to gather in the corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were still focused on the window behind her, but he leaned in and whispered, “I think it walks around at night. The corn. It doesn’t like the Scare Crow.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mostly we received corn, wheat flour, and lentils. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Later that night, she would slice him an extra-thick piece of corn bread with his dinner. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She uncovered an ember from the ashes and shredded little pieces of cornhusk over it and blew a little flame into the corn- husks so that a tiny light danced through the hut. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z If people had known ahead of time, they would have ground corn to prepare for the trip, but there was no time. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The corned beef over there is famous along the whole front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a certain uniqueness to a festival corn dog, an undeniable combination of grease and cornmeal, of hunger built up from maneuvering around the crowd, of anticipation from the fifteen-minute line. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z We ate hot dogs and hamburgers and corn on the cob and strawberries. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was holding a knife, a corn knife, in the moonlight, and he stared into Finn’s eyes for what seemed like hours. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The night had a quilted, weighted-down quality, as if somehow burdened, and all around us the Minnesota prairies reached out in long repetitive waves of corn and soybeans, everything flat, everything the same. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Add it all up and you find that every bushel of corn from an industrial farm requires about half a gallon of oil to grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You want a corn muffin to go with that cocoa? ’Cause that was kinda corny, Fab.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Then, finally, just about the time I started drifting off to sleep, I’d hear Old Yeller rise to his feet and go padding off through the corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The other night, sitting on the bedroom floor, where he was shaving a corn from his foot, he said quite casually, “So what was it like between you two?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normal bags of food—pasta with corn, potato salad, apple cobbler— and something else: a Sony tape recorder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To be exact— instead of the government buying all the extra corn, or loaning farmers money so they could store it, it just paid farmers part of the cost of growing it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She held on to the phone and stared at the sunburst clock and thought about Mrs. Sylvester’s gigantic jar of candy corn. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Chickens peck at corn kernels scattered across the dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He shut his mouth and shook his head for fear she’d whip out that corn knife. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Outside lay Celia’s garden filled with stands of corn, tomatoes, beans, peas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Who was the woman walking by with the roasted corn? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Iowa a bushel of corn fetched less than the price of a packet of gum. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They ship most of the corn exported to other countries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mama would go to the field and run Jumper out; then before she got her back turned good, he’d jump back in and go to eating corn again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The way to unlock the niacin in corn is to cook it with an alkali like lime. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The link between peoples of the North and the South can be seen in the diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica along routes created by the people and used for millennia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Wall of Ailing Corn was still there, though I saw no corn, ailing or otherwise, along that wall now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One month has gone by since Kim was caught stealing corn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he reveled in broad harvest fields, orange pumpkins, shocked corn, frost-touched grapes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment I removed the pouch of cold cooked corn, he jumped to the ground and squawked in delight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Two of the men still squatted near the Primus stoves, serving corn mush and fiver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizabeth let the clock ticktock a little bit, then say, “I believe you could buy dry corn at a feed store, Biddy.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But I would see him watching the clouds, particularly when we was planting corn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We put what we could in the nylon bags that corn and lentils had come in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Smiling again, Nat grabbed an ear of corn, ripped back the husk—the ear was red. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The year before, farmers in the Midwest had had a bumper corn crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That would be enough corn to fill a paper grocery bag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I imagine I hear corn shuffling in wind. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Feeling that it was time for him to do something, Bernard also jumped up and shouted: “I hear him; He’s corning.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chicken, corn, wheat, and soy can sometimes trigger food sensitivities in cats.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Passersby do not seem to notice a young man sitting beside a corn plant in the middle of a magic circle, seeking. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z After the exercises, the turkey foot and corn were thrown into the wastebasket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn made him aware of how hungry he was. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She motioned to Polly to put a little more corn pone on her plate, but Polly noticed she only nibbled at it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke of the first fires seeped out through the walls of the brush houses, and the first smell of cooking corn- cakes was in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He kicked the pieces and scattered them around the corn plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ever since, corn sweeteners have been the industry’s most important product. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the mill noisily turns America’s river of corn into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When Monsanto, or some other corporation, invents a new type of corn, it belongs to them and they can charge farmers for the right to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I would be obliged,” he said, “for even an old ear of corn. Soup would be heaven.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z On a morning work detail in December, a couple of weeks after his return to school, Shin discovered a dried-up ear of corn in a pile of straw and devoured it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes Olanna asked her to take some corn down to the grinding station down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he said: “I thought the corn looked good.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Together they kept the rabbits and groundhogs from eating the farmers’ crops and the rats from eating the corn stored in cribs and bins. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For two summers, he worked on corn hybrids at the famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They passed more fields, wheatand corn and barley ripening in the sun, but here there were no men sitting in trees, nor walking the rows with scythes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At supper Fern ate bread and corn but she wouldn’t touch the gravy-coated drumstick Big Ma put on her plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They would come to town and bring corn and millet, sorghum, and beans and take the T-shirts or other clothes the UN had given us in exchange. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To the left, across the road, most of the lawns were scorched dry like October corn. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there was no need for legumes to fix nitrogen, farmers could plant corn in every field, every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They traded for lots of corn, but by the time their boats were loaded up, the tide was out and the boats couldn’t move. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I felt better down in the cornfield, driving the tractor and the spreader through the rows of new corn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His hair had turned as white as corn silk. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she added four ears of corn from the box she was planning to take to the roadside stand to sell once we left for school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z For example, there’s more corn sweetener in my cheeseburger. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We popped corn and I read aloud a chapter from Treasure Island. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z "You get out of our fidd now, and take these sneaks and stabbers with you, or we'll stake you up in the corn to scare the other crows away." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z About that time people learned to plant and grow grasses like wheat, rice, and corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Dicey looked down a long dirt driveway that ran between fields of corn turned to color of August sunlight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They also cut down all the corn growing in the fields and kidnapped the family of an important leader. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At home in Rhode Island, the corn was tall as Ruth now. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama lifted the ears of corn from my skirt and looked at them all over. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But if corn is the star of this story, is it the hero or is it the bad guy? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And that corn is only cheap if you don’t count all the hidden costs, like the cost of pollution from chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Flour, corn, beef, sheep, all day were passing through the town gates upon the Neck, in carts and wagons. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A few crops, notably Mexican corn, did indeed spread to the other region in the pre-Columbian era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They stood there, scanning the fields, the dog barking, the corn waving. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She knew that both of these felt free to help themselves to the new corn each year, and that they were strong enough to carry ears away and store them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Lots of corn grew on the land, and Polly was consistently impressed by Teenie, who seemed to know thousands of things she could make from it, but Derbyshire Farms was actually a rice plantation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The field hands knew indigo, tobacco—cotton, of course—but corn was its own beast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The boys in our group had something that looked like a fishing net, and they would put the net on the ground and then sprinkle it with broken corn to attract birds. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That night we had corn on the cob for supper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I was almost tempted to ask my parents to fry some chicken and mash some potatoes and grill some corn on the cob, but that would’ve only stopped Arthur from discovering more about me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The Handsome One favored the golden corn above all else, a sure sign he was a true bird of Inti and not of the faraway jungles. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The glucose corn syrup wasn’t as sweet as sugar, but it was cheap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I had fun at the Coal farm, but I remember many a day when we would be following behind Papa Coal’s plow putting kernels of corn in the rows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the yard there's collards and corn growing a scarecrow, black snakes, and whip-poor-wills. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I watched a pile of corn pour into a railroad hopper car painted with Cargill’s blue and yellow logo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Somewhere, behind the brightly colored packaging, underneath the labels covered with information, there is a mountain of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The Paqo told me that these guesthouses were normally stocked with corn, potatoes, and dried strips of llama meat, as well as wood for fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The government told farmers it would pay them for all the corn they could grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And if we weren’t doing all that, we were filling candle molds with beeswax and washing mason jars till my hands turned stiff as corn husk from detergent. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Dona Mercedes scatters the last of the corn kernels and then studies my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon went down to a fingernail’s sliver and the corn popped from the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Again, the birds fell on the corn with starving cries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can come from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But the air was as thick as corn syrup. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She had told him stories, sung him songs, fed him bananas and corn bread and, on the first cold day of the year, hot nut soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was pouring rain outside, but before I reached the house I saw that the hands were still in the fields, still hoeing corn. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It had been a warm winter and a balmy spring in Bone Gap, so everyone with a field and a taste for corn had plowed and planted earlier than they’d ever dared before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z After a while the corn would start to stink, but it made the table look very festive. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It felt like the soft swish of corn tassels and being one step closer to an impossible dream. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He told them not to cry overly long for him and to make sure they got the corn in by June. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z More rains would come and the seeds would grow into tall plants with heavy ears of corn. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z They sat down on a bench in the shade, holding hands, surrounded by pigeons that were pecking at the corn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then one day the house was emptied. I went to the field, but it was just me and the corn.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The smell of the green, standing corn was round them all day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a grape arbor, beds of asparagus, lettuce, tomatoes, and potatoes, as well as fruit trees and a field with corn and soybeans. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It is worth noting that natural forces had been heavily relied on for control of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I knew her more than I knew myself: her favorite color was pink, she loved crab legs and corn on the cob, hated running late, and was allergic to peanuts. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Even with a good harvest on the remaining corn and the hay, we’d never bring in enough to pay off the bank. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “You did a good job on these,” she said, wrapping the corn in a clean kitchen towel before putting it in the icebox. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Dad shoveled in a spoonful of beans and corn bread. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We’d lie there on the cowhide and look up at the stars and listen to the warm night breeze rustling the corn blades. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Yar ground some of the corn into a powder, and that day we had a meal. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If where you stand is in agribusiness, processing cheap corn into forty-five different McDonald’s items is a great thing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When she first got Jake, an albino corn snake, he was no longer than a pencil, but I still refused to come over to her house. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Your neighbors will laugh and, worst of all, you will not be able to plant as much corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly it was cheaper to feed corn to cattle, instead of raising them on hay or grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The river of corn would flow from the farms to buyers anywhere in the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When Raymie told Mrs. Sylvester that she was going to enter the Little Miss Central Florida Tire contest, Mrs. Sylvester had clapped her hands together and said, “What a wonderful idea. Have some candy corn.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z There’s nothing more delicious than a roasted ear of fresh sweet corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When farmers first planted hybrid corn in the 1930s their yields doubled or tripled. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We spoon out the honey for the corn bread, unwrap the butter. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But I think it was parched corn that I liked the most. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “See that new corn?” he shouted over the tractor’s engine. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Frogmore stew didn’t have frogs in it, but it did have crab and shrimp cooked in a rich tomato broth with corn and potatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He married a Seattle woman of Illini stock, corn blond, svelte, and somber eyed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “There’s corned beef so you can make sandwiches for lunch,” Aunty Uju had said, as though those words were perfectly normal and did not require a humorous preamble about how Americans ate bread for lunch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When the can was heaped with crumpled paper, he dropped the leather cover—empty now, limp, like the husk stripped from an ear of corn—on top and kicked the can under his desk. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And how does this corn-based food chain look to the corn farmer? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The nanny crowded the kid away from the corn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It means cheap animal feed to produce cheap meat and cheap high- fructose corn syrup for soft drinks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Past the edge of our neighborhood, there was nothing to see except corn for about forty miles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother used to make me atole de grano when I was a girl, the dense corn kernels buried in the anicillo broth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The UN’s refugee agency had heard about all of us waiting in that field, and they arrived with dried corn, beans and lentils, oil, and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And that made me wonder if she was the one who’d stolen the can of corn the night before, which got me a little mad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Spread across it was a sliced ham, warm applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, hot corn bread, and green beans. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z These discussions included negotiating trading of corn and other foods for copper and other items the colonizers had brought. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As she stepped up on the running board, I nodded toward the basket of corn and tomatoes in the back seat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was dripping in the combs, and the corn was tall and full. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I made white bread, brown bread, corn bread, and spoon bread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In elementary school, did you learn that some Indigenous peoples thought of corn, beans, and squash as “the three sisters”? Did you help plant a “three sisters” garden as a school project? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Mostly peanut butter, but also clearly some corn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I held on to my skirt, weighed down with ripe corn. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A combine harvester rolled down a field like a dinosaur, corn disappearing into its great, scarlet maw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Flies buzzed in through the door, landing on the open watermelons and the sweet corn, climbing up the sweating pickle barrel. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the mute girl eating stew and corn bread left over from the table of the whites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A few ears of ripe new corn, blueberries, and a strong tea of wintergreen made the rest of the feast. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We ate mostly corn and beans—yellow corn, from America. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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