I was enjoying one of the first ears of local corn last night when a childhood memory came back to me. It's the mid-1960s: I’m sitting with my brothers, Michael and Lee, at the round, avocado-green ...

When to buy: Try to buy corn as close to the time it's been picked as possible, as corn sugars convert to starch as soon as harvested (25 percent of corn's sugar content lost in first 24 hours).

It's been a dizzying couple of weeks. Since before Thanksgiving, right up through New Year's Day, those of us who cook have done more than our fair share of preparing elaborate holiday meals, cookie ...

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