I remember the first time I stepped off a Greyhound to LA. Gran took me straight to a taco stand for hard shell corn tortilla and it was awesome.
I don't recall what we talked about but even from a distance of all these years I can recall the dead skin on his left heel, the hard, round corn on the big toe of his right foot and the tufts of hair that sprouted on his toes.
Not only did early Puebloans pass up a rich source of protein, but it appears they even gave the birds some of their hard-won corn harvests.
He is currently working on a performance piece about the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention for a September performance in Paris, as well as sound design for Hard-Core Corn, Kelly Haramis' one-woman show at the upcoming Chicago Fringe Festival.
If you have hard calluses, corns or growths, you might need to seek medical advice; don't let them go on unheeded or pain could result.
The feedlots where this happens can be no picnic for the cows, who have a hard time digesting corn, or for the waterways that happen to be downstream.
It's hard to follow corn bread and barbecue snacks with dinner, but the table gamely ordered food and a couple of apple martinis.
It will be hard to make corn ethanol or even rapeseed (used to make canola oil) meet the standard, said Lukas Gutzwiller of Switzerland's Federal Energy Office.
"When I spoke French at school, the teachers used to hit me on the end of my fingers with a ruler, or made me kneel on the floor on hard kernels of corn," said Loretta Jambone, 58, of Galliano.
