Maiz

El Maiz

 

I was thinking of the plant...I love eating elotes...I remember a class I had and the teacher said that corn was the first human modified plant...and it was done by the Native Americans...the plant is so interesting...Mexicans use it in many different ways for different occasions...in Brazil we use it in many other ways...and anywhere in the Americas we go...local people use it in their special way...Maiz is so Mexican...but also is so Peruvian...so Brazilian...it's so amazing...how it has become an international food...but very specific to each culture...I think this was one of the words we work with that the works on it were so diverse...people and plant became the same thing...very powerful...