Why Corn is The Most Sacred Crop

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Why Corn is The Most Sacred Crop - Forklore

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Introducing a brand new series from Eater called Forklore, where we explore the stories and legends surrounding some of your favorite foods from cultures all over the world. At the center of the first episode is corn, the golden, god-like vegetable whose farming practices inspired many traditional myths.
For part two of the corn episode of Forklore, which explores more of corn’s dark history, click here: • The Dark and Terrible ...
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@Rainer67059 7 жыл бұрын

As the Conquistadores asked for gold, we got the yellow variant of maize delivered to Europe. There are different color-types of maize: white, yellow, purple, + something I may not know of. But the Indigenos ate mainly purple maize. It contains a vitamin (flavanol) which the yellow and white variants lack. This further contributed to malnutrition in Europe on top of the lack of nixtamalization.

@BachaawarAhmath 3 жыл бұрын

They never asked the picture description is says it best

@toreano3160 Жыл бұрын

Yea n in return they enslaved them murdered n pillaged there land gave them diseases n took credit for everything

@thatdude3977 Жыл бұрын

@@toreano3160 they gave them disease haha they wouldnt have sqaushed a grape of they challenged them full power 😂 stop making it sound cool. Oh but youre black i see, youre using natives tragedy as a excuse to spread hate? Am i correct?

@billn.1318 3 жыл бұрын

The Mayans didn’t care about gold. They were more invested in corn. The things is.. in the end, what matters the most is food. Gold or money can get you what you need but when food is scarce and is vital for survival.. whoever harnesses the power to grow crops is the real gold winner here. Gold or money is just an object.

@MauYeah 8 жыл бұрын

Now i think that i understand why Rick from the show "Rick and morty" looses his mind, when they got on the "corn planet".

@toreano3160 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't have given them Europeans a dam thing

@music4thedeaf 5 жыл бұрын

The three sisters arnt exlcusive to indians in the states. In mexico they are called milpas the ancient practice of planting the 3 crops together.

@David-ol6fw 2 жыл бұрын

Mesoamericans developed the process. I don't know how USA natives ever got the credit for it, but it's ahistoric.

@music4thedeaf 2 жыл бұрын

@@David-ol6fw I don't think they do. Corn was domesticated in southern mex

@David-ol6fw Жыл бұрын

@@music4thedeaf As were squash and beans. The "three sisters" method of cultivation originates with Mexican indigenous but people always give the credit to the Iroquois which is what I was referring to.

@GCOSBenbow 8 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing about corn, is it grows everywhere, literally everywhere, in Central Africa, South America and even here in the UK, which is about as different an environment as you can get.

@Rainer67059 7 жыл бұрын

Nope, corn doesn't grow everywhere. The corn breeds that existed at the time of Columbus, that the indigenous Americans had, they all grew nowhere in Europe but in the southernmost regions. They grew only in mediterranean countries. In Germany, they grow only in the Kurpfalz triangle: Karlsruhe-Mannheim-Heidelberg. The climate was borderline, so you don't get the best results. The corn that now grows in Germany and elsewhere are new breeds that are interbred with non-corn plants somehow or genetically modified. That's not the real corn. You can't get good results in this climate. Unlike the potato, corn needs warmth and sun, and much more of it than wheat. Wheat doesn't grow in Scotland and the North of England, so they plant oat there instead or use the land as pasture for cows and sheep and produce meat and milk. In middle and southern you can grow wheat but not maize, except for the most southern parts with inferior results to more favorable regions of the earth.

@keysofperception4377 4 жыл бұрын

The corn god wanted to feed all people :)

@carlosabrego7987 2 ай бұрын

now days yes it grows everywhere ,,but maiz its 10000 years old and all started in Mexico

@cosmichealth3907 3 жыл бұрын

Simple terms....corn is super food....makes u live longer and healthy life....so why not destroy it first... every doc is against corn now a days because of adulteration

@630lopezful 2 жыл бұрын

@Eater give more credit to the first human beings who actually cultivated this life saving crop

@tosht2515 8 жыл бұрын

I think I'm going to like this new series. 👍

@fedoro1 7 жыл бұрын

Im gonna go eat my corn now

@azriredza 8 жыл бұрын

a-maize-zing

@LifeisAisha 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this!

@julian3d0919 8 жыл бұрын

Arepas!

@teddissac8155 8 жыл бұрын

sound so corny

@christophchristoph6720 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad all our corn is poisoned with gmos now.

@JimmyGarcia-hh2og 11 ай бұрын

That's the real problem, organic corn is very nutritious.

@horrorhabit8421 3 жыл бұрын

My people call it "maize."

@painttheworldgrey 8 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@djStrimmer 6 жыл бұрын

Tell the original story guys! The legend is of the Four Sisters - maize, beans, squash & tobacco. Stop oppressing the tobacco sister ! Tell the correct story & stop being PC about it

@Rainer67059 6 жыл бұрын

Tobacco? I thought, the fourth sister was the sunflower. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7ZhktOkvci2dHk.html

@Jolene8 8 жыл бұрын

Easily sewn, yet plagued with genetic modification.

@kimjmarley9674 3 жыл бұрын

world over population

@rebeccaketner816 11 ай бұрын

Mayan maize wasn’t yellow so…

@JimmyGarcia-hh2og 11 ай бұрын

Mayans??? Aztecs first.

@claymore9032 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yup the 3 Sisters, at our Longhouse(s) they do ceremonies for them. Haudenosaunee or "Iroquois". Thanks for the video man, I just love seeing and learning about all the Mankind on our planet . Interesting tribes, "race", culture their history , theology. All the same but different...individual, share and learn but know remember be "your root" 🌍🌎🌏