…and it’s back

I was recently contemplating when my corn strike should end. I couldn’t remember if I had set a date and didn’t really want to look back to check because I wanted to set a new date: Thanksgiving. I wasn’t sure what the holiday would bring (we don’t usually have a corn dish at our annual feast), but I knew that I wanted this incredibly expensive and much-needed trip home to be a real vacation, at least as much as possible. And so I decided that the corn strike ended when my feet hit midwestern soil. I rationalized this decision by telling myself that I would need to blog about the experience of reintroducing corn into my diet during the last two weeks of the semester, as well as outline how this project will continue for me beyond the semester’s end.

No matter how I rationalized it, nothing mattered once we got to one of our St. Louis mainstays: Bottleworks. A local brewery where my favorite order is a piece of salmon, which comes with a side of maple mashed sweet potatoes and pan fried corn. I was ready to return to corn.

Lucky for me that I did because my Aunt Sue made an amazing new addition to our Thanksgiving feast, a cold vegetable salad filled with corn. Since I don’t eat turkey, I would have been incredibly sad to pass up a side dish like this. (Note: I was too excited by eating corn all weekend and neglected to take any pictures of my corn dishes, so the picture above is simply representative of what was eaten.)

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