wombat
It contained everything I wanted to know about corn! :)
One more item on nixtamalization...In the 1800's, in America, poor folks in the south were consuming large amounts of corn, skipping this important step, leading to LOTS of pellagra(niacin deficiency). White folks assumed that Indians did this because of laziness, as in making the corn easier to grind...
Arrogance with no regards to traditional knowledge...