But underneath the water lies his livelihood - barley, pumpkin, sweetcorn and potatoes.

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For lunch, Mr Leacock serves Canary Island soup a rich brew of pumpkin, peppers and sweetcorn and talks about his life.

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Mr Walton, who has an allotment in the Rhondda, said younger allotment holders were tending to grow different produce to older people, such as peppers and sweetcorn.

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Returning to Connaught Place, seek out a child-friendly street snack on the inner circle, where ice cream vendors and a nameless stall dishing up particularly tasty sweetcorn ply their wares.

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So, while the European Commission's decision means that tins of modified sweetcorn can now be sold across all 25 EU states, it is still not clear whether supermarkets will stock them, nor if consumers would buy them.

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Also in the Broad Ripple neighbourhood, chef Greg Hardesty presents plates of edible art at his acclaimed Recess, illustrating just how refined the Indianapolis food scene has become, with a rotating menu of fresh fish like sable served with a sweetcorn-scallion blini, and an international drinks list of perfect dish pairings, from a French 2009 Domaines Schlumberger pinot gris to a local Sun King Brewery Wee Mac Scottish-style ale.

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