A look at overstuffed supermarket shelves makes it seem as if all the wholesome, ancient, or otherwise better-than-white-rice alternative grains have been discovered by now, especially by a guy named Bob.
The texture is tender yet chewy, like hominy. Tortilla and dulce rojo pepper soup with Job's Tears, chicken, crema, avocado, marjoram, and chicken cracklin's. Photo: Courtesy of Elisabeth Prueitt. She says she discovered them years ago, while trolling a natural foods store for something new, and has used them every which way since.
Each grain is enclosed in a hard fruit case called a cupule and a pair of papery glumes. This spike is equivalent to an ear of modern corn. Tunicate Mutation: The grains are enclosed in a pair of husklike glumes without the hard outer cupule from which they can be threshed with ease.
Further selection by pre-Columbian farmers could have reduced the size of the tunicate glumes and resulted in ears with many rows. In the distance are the northern Coast Ranges and Mount Diablo. Popping corn, one of the many varieties of Zea mays. The small, upper left ear is called strawberry popcorn.
When the grains are heated, water contained within the starchy endosperm expands as steam, and the hard-shelled grains literally explode. Grains of some of the earliest known forms of corn, such as teosinte, were hard, thick-shelled popping corns. So the next time you enjoy freshly-popped corn, remember that you are primarily eating hot, exploded endosperm.
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We will only ask you for information necessary to make the purchase process faster and easier. Also known as corn beads, coix seed or tear grass, Job's Tears are a member of the grass family, and grow similarly to corn. Used for beads since at least 2, BCE, and recently uncovered at a western Native American historical site. Once an important source of food, most likely originating in India.
Today we grow them primarily for their very hard, teardrop shaped grains that are used as beads for making jewelry and other craft projects. Singleton holds a master's degree in musicology from Florida State University and is a member of the American Independent Writers.
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