Nixtamalization
It tastes good and it's good for you (and it's fun to say)
It's not quite fermentation, but it transforms the flavor and nutrition of a staple crop—so it's definitely worth knowing about. -
I grew a lot of sweet corn last summer, but because we had a bad drought here in the late summer, some of the unpicked ears dried on the stalk when I went out of town for a bit. I harvested the dried ears and removed all the kernels, curious to see how they’d work instead of flint or dent corn—the types normally dried for making hominy or grinding into …
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