Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever gleefully walked into your garden, anxiously anticipating your early summer sweet-corn harvest, only to find that ...

Elissa Narow of Perennial Virant holds an infected cob of corn during a 2012 Key Ingredient challenge Credit: Julia Thiel Huitlacoche, also known as corn smut, is a bizarre-looking thing: a fungus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 2—Chef Dave Rawson of Meadowlark Restaurant in Washington Twp. recalled his mom growing gardens when he was a kid and getting ...

Researchers have mimicked a corn plant's make-up in the lab to investigate "corn smut," opening the door to finding a cure for the disease. Their study appears in Science. Ustilago maydis or "corn ...

It’s probably nicer to say huitlacoche, but doesn’t corn smut sound more exciting? Hecho en Dumbo started out as a pop-up restaurant in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, but it recently moved to the ...

It could make for a better meal than initially expected A GREEN thumb has second-guessed their horticulturist skills after growing some strange-looking corn. Other gardening fans insist, however, that ...

Pssst. Want to see some smut? There is no need to hit the parental control button. This is about smut – rotten to the core smut, nonetheless – but this is the kind you eat not ogle. And it’s a crop ...

It’s now an established scientific fact: Smut is GOOD for you. Corn smut, that is. For years, scientists have assumed that huitlacoche (WEET-LA-KO-CHEE) – a gnarly, gray-black corn fungus long-savored ...

I’m just going to come right out and say it: The roundly respected chef Rick Bayless has been promoting smut. And if everything goes according to plan, he’ll soon be selling fresh batches of it at his ...