Corn Cooked Properly

There are about a million corn recipes. Ten percent of these involve corn on the cob.

• Roasted Corn
• Barbequed Corn w/ Lemon-Chipotle
• Baby Corn Chow Fan
• Corn Oysters
• Grilled w/fancy sauce du jour
• And so on

All these recipes are well and good,but in truth, they are just ways of dealing with corn that's not fresh. Ask any farm kid about corn and you will find two recipes. Having tried both, I can say, with no reservations, that all the others apply only when you don't have a field handy.

• Go to the field at mid-day, shuck an ear, eat it.
• Put a pot of salted water to the boil, go to the field, shuck the corn, run back to the pot and cook the corn (I go for ten seconds, some others recommend as long as a minute), slather on way too much butter, salt to taste, eat it.
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