The onions are used in a recipe for roasted sweet summer corn, whose master stroke is a sauce made from butter and white miso paste.

WSJ: The Momofuku Cookbook by David Chang

Like the pork and beef industries, in the early spring of 2012, the chicken industry believed this summer would yield a bumper corn harvest, and so it upped production levels to utilize this large crop.

FORBES: Chicken

Not far away, Westport is a town of beaches, cows and corn, million dollar summer homes to shotgun shacks ready to collapse on the people inside.

FORBES: Getting Over Our Over-Levered Selves

Already weakened by sickness and malnutrition, the Pilgrims with the help of this wonderful Native American struggled through the spring and summer to make it to their first successful corn harvest.

FORBES: Giving Thanks

Of all these incidents the most egregious was the salmonella scare and recall last summer, which involved not just Veggie Booty but a second product, Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks.

FORBES: Tainted Booty

The cool, wet spring in the Midwest delayed planting of the corn and soybean crops and that means pollination of these two crops is happening later in the summer.

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