Maize Elote Corn
Hola sobrinas y sobrinos.
Have you had your fill of fresh sweet corn on the cob this summer? I remember how Juanito, Rosita Maria y Agua Clarita would put the 50 gallon pasta pot on the school house stove and cook three dozen or more corn cobs for a lunch feast. I can't remember if some of you liked them with butter and sea salt or olive oil and brewer's yeast or just plain like nature gives them to us. How many of the new kids in our families know about this? - then followed the watermelon munch, juice dripping down our chins.
Cultural Notes:
When the Spanish got to the Caribbean islands, they saw maize growing right up to the shores. Maize is from the Taino language, from the people who had been there for 12,000 years, give or take a few thousand years.
When the Spanish got to Mexico, they found the same corn which the Aztecs called elote - corn on the cob. The Aztec people have been there since Crow stole fire from the sun 12,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years.
When the English got to the blue hills of Massachusetts, they called maize corn because that's what they called wheat, rye, oats and barley grains. These ancestors have been there for about 388 years, give or take a decade or two.
All good names for a gift from the Creator of the cosmos.
Paz siempre, sweethearts!
Tio R
1 Timothy 5:18
For the scripture saith,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn.
And, The labourer is worthy
of his reward.
PS
How many oxen you got treading about...?
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