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Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows t
... See moreMichael Pollan • Omnivore's Dilemma
Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any. For the most part the farmer gives to his cattle and hogs the grain of his own producing, and buys flour, which is at least no more wholesome, at a greater cost, a
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Sumerians are thought to have first domesticated the wild seeds of eight neolithic founder crops – barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, bitter vetch, flax, emmer wheat, einkorn wheat
Rachel Roddy • An a-Z of Pasta
