It's eaten on the cob. It gets stuck in your teeth. And it accounts for only about 1 percent of the corn grown in America. Flint corn, which has a soft center and harder outer shell, is what most ...

Gardeners wonder if ornamental corn is edible. No, it's flint corn, which is just as hard as its name suggests. You could boil it until the cows came home, and the cows would still be the only ...

It's believed that Native Americans were the first to create the dish back in the 1600s, using the white cap flint corn they cultivated in Rhode Island. They then taught European colonists how to ...

And a letter. The handwritten note explained that the corn was an heirloom variety called New England Eight Row Flint (or Otto File, by its Italian name), and that it was a taste that was nearly ...