Who has corn?

[Anonymous]

I went to my neighborhood Safeway AND Giant and neither had corn. What's the deal? I need to make a corn recipe for Thanksgiving.

What Supermarket in NW DC (Woodley Park area) has fresh corn?

[Anonymous]

No one has fresh corn this time of year. It's a summer vegetable. You'll have to buy frozen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has fresh corn this time of year. It's a summer vegetable. You'll have to buy frozen.

I thought the Pilgrims ate corn. No?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has fresh corn this time of year. It's a summer vegetable. You'll have to buy frozen.

I thought the Pilgrims ate corn. No?

Thanksgiving wasn't mandated at the end of November back then.
And what they had probably wasn't the sweet corn we eat in the summer--most corn varieties grown are harder, dent corn, that has to be ground up and prepared with liquid to be edible (or it's used for animal feed).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Thanksgiving wasn't mandated at the end of November back then.
And what they had probably wasn't the sweet corn we eat in the summer--most corn varieties grown are harder, dent corn, that has to be ground up and prepared with liquid to be edible (or it's used for animal feed).

I am impressed with your corn knowledge.

But now I have to find another recipe (I'm in charge of a vegetable dish). Sigh.

[Anonymous]

There was fresh corn at Brookville Market last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanksgiving wasn't mandated at the end of November back then.
And what they had probably wasn't the sweet corn we eat in the summer--most corn varieties grown are harder, dent corn, that has to be ground up and prepared with liquid to be edible (or it's used for animal feed).

I am impressed with your corn knowledge.

But now I have to find another recipe (I'm in charge of a vegetable dish). Sigh.

Just make one with frozen corn, see the thread on here for best thanksgiving side dish, people posted a bunch of corn pudding recipes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I thought the Pilgrims ate corn. No?

I think the pilgrims ate rehydrated dried corn, think of the corn you hang on the door at Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

If you buy frozen organic corn, it tastes very close to fresh.

[Anonymous]

corn is one of the few things that actually freezes very well

[Anonymous]

I regularly use frozen corn in veggie dishes or soups that require cooking; it holds up very well. (Even Nora Pouillon's cookbook gives it the go-ahead in the winter in one of her corn chowder recipes.) Stick to your recipe and try it, it will probably do quite well.