It is hard to imagine a world without corn. It sweetens our sodas, fuels our cars, fattens our livestock, and forms the core of countless meals. Whether you are biting into a buttery cob at a summer ...

Perhaps responsible for a lot of dental work, Corn Nuts has a been an all-American snack for almost 90 years. But before it was commercialized in 1936, its prototype, "parched corn," can be traced ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

Explore how early settlers shaped Ohio’s agricultural legacy, from record-setting corn and wheat production to tobacco ...

COLORADO, USA — Central to many Latin cultures is corn, a grain with a historical significance that goes back thousands of years. To create food and art celebrating corn in the present is to pay ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The history of corn, one of humankind's indispensable staple crops, is far more complicated that previously known, according to scientists who conducted a comprehensive genetic ...

Nature At The Confluence will host a presentation on food history Sept. 6. The event will feature Cynthia Clampitt, a 2025 Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speaker, according to a community ...

“The History of Shelby County,” a 1915 book by author Edward White, recounts the following about Shelby Township, one of the county's administrative districts just south of Earling: “A most ...