A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...
As humidity sets in across the region, raising temperatures into the 90s and even 100s across the Midwest, corn may be partly to blame for the humidity. Corn sweat describes the moisture released into ...
Learn how to nixtamalize corn, nixtamalization history, and why this process creates more nutrition for us to absorb. In fall of 2023, when Marissa Ames, former editor-in-chief of MOTHER EARTH NEWS, ...