Gastronomic Meditations: Summer Corn

With the advent of warmer weather and baseball season, I can't help recalling with great fondness the Sunday dinners at my grandparents' house when I was young. I didn't think much of it then, but now that I am a mom and love preparing family dinners for my son, husband, parents and whoever else might happen by, I realize just how much those lazy Sunday afternoons listening to the Yankees on the radio and cooking with my Nanny and mom has meant to me.

Most Sundays, my parents and I would take the short ride from our home to spend the day with my "Nanny and Poppy". Our weekly sojourn always included a trip to Adams Fairacre Farms; going to Adams was my favorite part of the day because they always had yummy cookies, cakes and candies that no typical grocery store had. My mother, Nanny and I would gather the produce and other items that we needed to make our dinner complete for that day, and I could always count on one thing -- that corn on the cob would be on the menu. (read more)