They were growing nine plants of corn in their garden, along with vegetables and herbs, and we struck up an e-mail conversation. So far, we have cornbread, chips and popcorn, and we discussed corn being used for livestock feed. Fla. Zinkand, who heled launch IFT's CornCam, was visiting students with whom he corresponded during the summer. Tortillas, cornflake, cornmeal mush. I should check on polenta.
Some people actually eat corn smut.
When I offered several e-mails later to mail her a New York Times article on grits, she apparently thought I was taking the subject lightly. And I hadn t even made any comparisons to wallpaper paste. Not yet, anyway. Regarding grits, the joke s over, Miss Faulk wrote. Grits are serious.