[Sca-cooks] a grain question- probably OOP

[Decker, Terry D.]

Some of the large kernal millets look amazingly like maize also.  In fact,
the description of the first European encounter (Columbus' Diary again) with
maize refers to it as a kind of millet.

Bear

>
> It looks
> vaguely like maize; it has a fruiting body with clusters of
> kernels on a
> central "ear" like maize. I _think_ that some of the alleged
> pictures of
> maize that have been found that ante-date Columbus may in fact be of
> sorghum.
>
> Adamantius