Perfect Picnic Corn Salad

Lettuce wilts. Mayonnaise spoils. It takes a special salad to maintain its flavor and appearance an hour into the heat of a summer picnic or barbecue–coleslaw, potato or Caesar won’t do. You can place this tasty and colorful corn salad on any buffet table and rightly expect to take home an empty bowl. The recipe […]

Sweet Corn Panna Cotta With Bacon and Blueberry Sauce

This creamy cup is topped with fresh seasonal blueberries and a bit of salty bacon to complete the circle. Here in middle America, we pair bacon and blueberries with our corn. You should, too. Editor’s Note: This recipe comes from Shaina Olmanson’s new cookbook, “Desserts in Jars: 50 Sweet Treats that Shine.” She helps home […]

Corn Fun for Your Family

I’m Donna Jeschke, an Illinois family farmer. Corn is one of the crops I grow on my farm.   You may not realize it, but corn is an important crop for our state. Because of our fertile soil, we’re able to grow some of the world’s best corn. That corn is used for livestock feed, […]