Corn-free for a week

A week without the ubiquitous starch

By Culinate staff

July 24, 2009

Over at Serious Eats, writer Carey Jones is doing a corn challenge, à la Curt Ellis. Carey went without corn for a week — even popcorn! — mostly by avoiding processed food. But in the end, it turns out that’s not enough:

As the week went on, a realization sunk in. Though I was eating no corn, my eating habits were still largely corn-based. That milk I was drinking? Definitely came from corn-eating cows. The chickens in my sausage chowed on corn-based feed, and their egg-laying sisters were fed with corn as well. And that contributed to our society’s massive overproduction just as surely as corn syrup.

So next week, Carey is going without corn-fed animal products too. Check back next week to find out just how hard that was. Or how easy.