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Mexico City, Mexico

Cal y Maíz

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.
murals

Podcast: The Corn Palace

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 29, 2022
Tlacolula de Matamoros, Mexico

Criollito

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.
Bernal, Mexico

The Flavored Esquites of Bernal

This small town specializes in a rainbow of corn snacks.
mazes

Exploring the Mysterious Allure of Mazes and Labyrinths

On the joys and frustrations of losing yourself.
A.J. Jacobs May 5, 2022
museums

Inside LA's First Mexican Food Museum

Or how to channel 5,000 years of history into one exhibit.
Diana Hubbell March 8, 2022
Gastro Obscura

K’alapurka

In the city of Potosí, a steamy soup bubbles from the heat of volcanic rocks.
New Florence, Missouri

Wood Hat Spirits

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.
mazes

Get Lost in a Corn Maze That Looks Like a Microscopic 'Water Bear'

Here's what it takes to transform a field of corn into a truly enormous tardigrade.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 12, 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico

Itanoní

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.
food

The Chef Bringing Native American Flavors to Communities in Quarantine

For Brian Yazzie, the COVID-19 pandemic evokes a history of smallpox, European colonization, and indigenous resilience.
Reina Gattuso March 27, 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico

La Pozontlería

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.
Rochester, Minnesota

Corn Water Tower

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.
snow

Endless Fields of Unharvested Corn, As Seen From Space

North Dakota's corn fields will spend the winter under a snowy blanket.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 11, 2019
farms

The Promise and Perils of Resurrecting Native Americans’ Lost Crops

Who owns ancient seeds?
Reina Gattuso April 4, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Corn Knives

Early American settlers invented new tools to harvest a new crop.
science

Americans Have Planted So Much Corn That It's Changing the Weather

The Corn Belt is making it rain.
Eric J. Wallace December 3, 2018
Gastro Obscura

The Puffing Gun

Many popular cereals exploded out of its chamber and into existence.