Henry Stone

The Cobb salad was born in the wee hours of a Hollywood, California, morning in 1937 at the Brown Derby restaurant. The owner, Bob Cobb, was ruffling through the kitchen’s refrigerator, pulling out various remnants including lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, tomatoes, chives and avocado. Was the Cobb salad invented at Read more…

Sweet corn has a higher sugar content than cow corn and is picked while immature before the sugar has a chance to turn into starch. Fresh, sweet corn is juicy. The juice, or “milk,” is how you get the creaminess of creamed corn. Is sweet corn and corn on the Read more…

There are a couple of ways to remove corn from a cob. A kernel stripper or knife for fresh corn and the act is called cutting or stripping. For dried corn, the process is known as shelling. What is the corn peel called? Pericarp. The pericarp is the outer covering Read more…

White corn has a sweet, delicate flavor well-suited for fresh and cooked preparations, including roasting, sautéing, steaming, boiling, and grilling. The kernels can be removed from the cob and tossed into salads, pureed into dips, or stirred into pasta. Can white corn be sweet? Our supersweet white corn is sweeter Read more…

Baby corn, cornlets or young corn are a cereal that comes from corn that is harvested early. Baby corns are consumed along with their cobs and are eaten either raw or cooked. Because the cob of baby corn is very soft, the raw kernels are not separated from the cob Read more…

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. How big is a medium ear of corn? Nutrition Stats: 1 medium ear, (6 3/4” to 7 1/2” long, 103g). How much corn is on an average cob? Fortunately, you don’t need to measure the yield of each ear Read more…

One corn plant, given adequate growing conditions, will produce between two and four ears of corn. Early varieties produce fewer, while later-maturing types produce slightly more. How much corn you get will largely depend on how well you take care of the crop. How many cobs does a maize plant Read more…

Just combine the melted butter and oil in the squeeze container, and give it a quick shake. That’s it! The condiment bottle is easy to pass around the table, letting each person douse their corn to taste. The butter mix will stay liquidy all evening, even through second helpings. How Read more…

World’s largest corn cob measures 39.5cm in Jala, Nayarit. What is the biggest corn ever? The winning cob measured 39.5 centimeters long, beating out the next largest by only a half centimeter. Are corn cobs all the same size? Although the size of a cob of corn can vary slightly, Read more…