{"id":1026,"date":"2014-12-19T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-12-19T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:05:16","slug":"freshly-picked-yuma-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Freshly Picked Yuma Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a favorite produce stand in Yuma ever since I&#8217;ve been on the road.  They get good products, especially local, and have very fair prices.  They are near to where I park.  And they&#8217;re the only place with any quality.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve always advertised &#8220;Freshly Picked Yuma Corn&#8221;, which I&#8217;ve ignored because I didn&#8217;t believe it.  And I don&#8217;t want corn in December, I want citrus.  Yesterday I tried their corn.<\/p>\n<p>First, my bias.  I grew up on Yakima Valley corn, and regard it as the gold standard.  But any sweet corn picked in August is good for me.  <\/p>\n<p>The corn was freshly picked, though I&#8217;ve not seen any corn fields around here.  Small ears, though.  I usually simmer corn in a pot, breaking the ears in half before they go in.  I always turn my head when breaking so the juices don&#8217;t hit my glasses.  Good thing I did, as the corn was squirty.  Good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Flavor was a disappointment.  There was a distinct plant-like flavor, and very little sugar.  I ate what I cooked, and tossed the rest.  And started thinking about Yakima corn.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid Yuma corn.  It&#8217;s not what you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a favorite produce stand in Yuma ever since I&#8217;ve been on the road. They get good products, especially local, and have very fair prices. They are near to where I park. And they&#8217;re the only place with any quality. They&#8217;ve always advertised &#8220;Freshly Picked Yuma Corn&#8221;, which I&#8217;ve ignored because I didn&#8217;t believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}