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Kernels of Wisdom
by Bevin Wallace | July 29th, 2011 | No Comments
topic: Family Health, Green Living, Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: artificial sweeteners, buy local, carbohydrates, carbs, corn, diet, dietary fiber, folate, food, high fructose corn syrup, local corn, locally-grown food, michael pollan, nutrition, organic corn, organic food, peaches, sugar, summer, Summertime Salsa Recipe, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, tomatoes, vegetables, vitamin C, whole grains
For as long as I can remember, corn has been one of my favorite summertime foods. As a kid, I loved to sit on the picnic table in our backyard shucking ear after ear of the patchwork white-and-pale-yellow Olathe sweet corn my mom would bring home by the bushel. Later I’d slather it with butter and salt and sink my teeth in the way my dog attacks a meaty beef bone.
When I got my braces in fifth grade, I learned to eat corn on the cob one row at a time to minimize the hardware-cleaning process (corn was officially forbidden by the orthodontist, but I really think I outsmarted him on this one; don’t ask about my Milk Dud incident). I always thought eating something as nutritious as a fresh vegetable — especially since I loved it so much — was worth it.
