SWEET CORN
Corn is a term that has been used to describe whatever is the leading cereal grain in a given area.
In England for many centuries, “corn” referred to wheat. In Ireland and Scotland, “corn” was oats. It’s all very confusing and makes it virtually impossible for marketers to come up with snappy names for their breakfast cereals.
In Australia today, the term “corn”, or “sweet corn”, refers to Zea mays, the plant that produces delicious golden corn cobs, and this is the plant we are talking about here. Around the world, this plant has often been referred to as “maize” and it has a long history of use.
The first domestication of corn in Mexico and Central America dates to somewhere between 9000 and 8000 BCE. By the
