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Easy
By Ken Hom
Published 1998
Along with tomatoes and white and sweet potatoes, sweetcorn was brought into China from the New World within the last few centuries. That is only recently, as China measures things. All of these foods quickly became staples in the Chinese diet. Until the 1950s, sweetcorn kernels in China were rather tough so corn was usually boiled. Chinese immigrants arrived in America to find much sweeter, softer corn and it became one of the favourite foods of Chinese-Americans: I love it in all ways, ca
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