"I'm not interested in food"

What kind of strange person would make a comment like this? Oh just the head of advertising for the United Kingdom Grocery Chain Morrison's. I became pretty good friends with a marketing major at Emerson and I know he wasn't completely 100% passionate about every company his professors threw at him, but through his work and ideas you really could see him starting to get passionate about it. It would be pretty hard to represent a grocery store when you aren't interested in food. It's kind of like taking a job as the head of sales for Tyson and being a vegetarian.

In other grocery store news Whole Foods exec sold stocks and made 1.4 million dollars in a bad economy. This is of course after it was projected that the yuppy grocery store would lose a tremendous amount of money because of the economic hit to its clientele. I suppose no one really knows what's going on anymore.

In other much more interesting news all of this summer's rain has produced possibly the best tasting corn ever reported in the history of Emily eating corn. That may not sound that long to you, but one of my mom's friends got some of the corn too and her parents(who I think it would be pretty honest to say are MUCH older than me) said they had never tasted corn that sweet and fresh.

This morning I spent the majority of my time husking my mom's 150 ears. She always buys a lot, flash cooks them, and then we cut the kernels off so we can freeze the corn and eat it in the middle of winter. We actually experimented a little bit this year, and grated some corn for corn fritters. There are quite a few moments in life when I am seriously sad for anyone who is not PA Dutch and has never tried corn fritters.

Because of the excellence of this corn the corn fritters were like candy that melted in your mouth. I know that you might have never tried a corn fritter, but think of a pancake made of corn. Potato pancakes get corny.

We doubled this recipe to feed our family as a side.

2 Large perfect ears of corn
1 tablespoon flour
1 egg seperated
pinch of salt
oil for frying

Grate the corn. We have a fancy (or not so fancy) grater that my great grandmother had, but if you use your cheese grater just watch your knuckles. Add the corn, flour, egg yolk, and salt in a bowl. Beat the egg white till it's nice and stiff. Fold in the egg white. We fried them on a griddle, but just a frying pan with oil works too.

Be adventurous and remember food doesn't ask you to be interested in it, but you spend a lot of your time making and eating it so you might as well enjoy it.

Happy Eating!!!

Emily