National Corn on the Cob Day - June 11th

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Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how maize became one of our most popular cereals.
Farming by early civilisations started a process of domestication that produced the sweet yellow corn we use today for food or fuel.
Ancient DNA extracted from the cob gives a window into the past to the time when maize was first grown.

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The cob is one of the oldest in the world and was excavated from a cave in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico.

"Based on archaeological evidence and modern DNA evidence, we already know that maize was domesticated in Mexico some time between about 10,000 and 6,000 years ago," said Nathan Wales, of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
"What we did not know using modern DNA or other information is really how this process gets going and the timing of different events in the past." (READ MORE)
 

Oh the joy, fresh, sweet, drowning in butter!!! I ruin so many shirts in the summer with the butter stains I don't catch and pretreat before the wash. LOL
 
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