I remember my first taste of smut. Not the Playboy–Hustler kind, but corn smut: a plant disease in which a temperamental fungus turns regular ears of corn into bulbously deformed, oblong creatures ...

Rosa María Zamarrón is a Detroit-based photographer whose work centers on community, culture, and food. A few years ago, an Anishinaabe elder named Lucy was showing me the corn she grew in a small ...

Huitlacoche, also known as the "Mexican truffle," is an edible fungus that forms on undeveloped corn ears and sells for as much as $40 a pound. Discovered by the Aztecs, the bulbous fungus has been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hidden amid the glitz and glamor of Colorado’s latest Michelin awards, announced in mid-September, is an unexpected ingredient common to several of the ...

The cocktails are a real icebreaker at this dinner party. Two couples have arrived almost simultaneously. They’re greeted in Spanish and English by their hostess, Gina Pacheco, and her husband, Carlos ...

All week long, I’ve been talkin’ smut with farmer Liz Porter. As co-owner of Buckeye Creek Farm in Hickory Flat and coordinator of the Cherokee Fresh Market, she seems respectable enough. But this ...

Away from the seagulls and tourist-driven-organic-local-seasonal-sustainable-hubbub that is the Saturday morning Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market at the Ferry Building, there is another farmers’ market ...

There is nothing subtle or simple about huitlacoche — known in Mexico as corn fungus or corn smut. Its black fungus-y appearance is a bit startling, but its pungent, earthy taste combines beautifully ...

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How about corn smut with your breakfast? Now that I have your attention, let me share one of the most delicious egg dishes I’ve ever had: scrambled eggs with huitlacoche, aka Mexican truffle, a fungus ...

Attorney Joanne Lee Molinaro went vegan five years ago, modernizing the traditional Korean foods of her childhood and documenting the journey on TikTok as the Korean Vegan. She shares recipes and her ...