23 Corn Recipes From 15 Cuisines.

The sacred grain of the Americas, domesticated in Mexico thousands of years ago and still the foundation of its food as nixtamalized masa — tortillas, tamales, sopes. Sweetcorn, its sugary young form, is a different ingredient altogether: grilled elote slathered in mayonnaise, chile and lime is Mexico’s best-known street snack. Charring kernels in a dry pan wakes up even frozen corn.

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