a general name for cereal crops, is also commonly used in the USA and elsewhere as a name for maize. The latter usage is especially prevalent with regard to the kinds of maize eaten as vegetables; the terms ‘sweet corn’ and ‘corn on the cob’ are examples. But maize is a single species, and is considered in all its forms in the entry for it. That entry includes, at the end, references to various products and preparations whose names incorporate the word ‘corn’.
Corn in the wide sense crops up in the Bible and in expressions such as corn-fed, corn exchange, cornfield.
Alan Davidson was a distinguished author and publisher, and one of the world's best-known writers on fish and fish cookery. In 1975 he retired early from the diplomatic service—after serving in, among other places, Washington, Egypt, Tunisia, and Laos, where he was British Ambassador—to pursue a fruitful second career as a food historian and food writer extraordinaire. Among his popular books are Seafood of South-East Asia, North Atlantic Seafood, and Mediterranean Seafood. In 2003, shortly before his death, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize for his contribution to European culture.
