First, you make a yeast dough for the cake, then you top it with a treacly mix of corn syrup, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
We also liked the king salmon atop North Fork succotash (a mix of corn and beans like broad beans, cranberry beans and gigantes).
Since the job of "December 7th" was to conjure inspirational purpose out of a debacle, its mix of corn and hysteria is vividly evocative of a time when it was our side that needed to invent Godzilla.
Chinese five-spice powder on the ruby red-fleshed duck breast worked well with the appealingly bitter, burnt honey sauce; a delicious celery root purée, and a mix of corn, carrot and celery root complimented the duck.
In part because the agency's primary food supplement is a mix of corn and soy, it cannot afford to help all of the Guatemalan children in need, Mr. Gauvreau said; it is agency policy to buy corn locally, but there is no extra corn grown here anymore.
Lunch and dinner included vegetable staples of the Ital repertory: a dark stew of "veggie chunks" (textured vegetable protein) seasoned with allspice; a tangle of complexly flavored cooked-down callaloo greens; a quick sauté of shredded white cabbage, scented with garlic, tossed with a garden mix of corn, lima beans, pumpkin shreds and more.
At a feedyard in Texas I saw a very different type of farming, thousands of cattle confined in grass-free, mud enclosures and fed a diet based on a carefully formulated mix of corn, fat, growth hormones and antibiotics.
Make a date for something sweet and spicy at A-Frame in LA, with its Furikake Kettle Corn -- a mix of corn pops, chili flakes, chives and butter.
On the day I visited, mothers were receiving Super Cereal, a fortified mix of corn and soya flour that is specifically designed to treat malnutrition.
