I was eating chinese food a few minutes ago, with the little baby ears of corn. Then it dawned on me, where does this stuff come from. Ive eaten it for 45 years and never thought about if it was even really corn. Well it is below is from a site. oh ya babycorn.com, where else?
Just as with new potatoes, baby or miniature corn is not a special type of corn, it is baby corn — immature little ears of corn, new to this glorious world. It is always some variety of sweet corn, which has not been pollinated, and is harvested within four days of the silks emerging from the ear. (Sweet corn that grows to maturity is usually harvested 20 days after the silks appear).
The industrial production of baby corn has long been the province of Thailand and China — and, indeed, (and we promise not to say, "— and, indeed" again in this article), baby corn has found most widespread use in Asian cooking. But Latin America has recently become another leading source for baby corn.
