natural cooks (was Re: SC - Re:Balthazar's expresso cake)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

I was looking at a map of maize production world wide from about 1948.  Most
of the big wheat producers, China, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey and the
northern Middle East are shown as major growers of maize.  Most of Europe is
not.

Bear 

> My parents have often told me that when I was a baby (I lived 
> in London
> until age 3) our French au-pair refused to eat corn as she 
> considered it to
> be pig food (this was 28 years ago). 
> A matter of great astonishment to us, as hot buttered 
> corn-on-the-cob with
> pepper is a favorite BBQ treat in NZ.
> Ciao
> Lucretzia
> 
> 
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