These megasacks, made out of corn starch, hold 2.5 grams of tea, flowers, herbs, dried fruit and sometimes cacao nibs.

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The plastic is made from corn starch sourced in the U.S. state of Nebraska, and Paget says it is the first of its kind to appear in the United Kingdom.

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Some things are OK. Corn starch is often used to get water off a coat, and that helped on a rainy Monday as dogs piled into the halls on the Hudson piers for early judging.

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He admits that it is not simple to pull the sugars out of non-food material like pulp or wood waste, but says that even factoring in the extraction process, the final cost should be lower than using corn starch or sugar cane, both of which are much higher-priced commodities.

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For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.

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If it isn't sweet and tender (meaning the sugars have turned to starch), quickly blanch or grill the corn before using.

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On a more philosophical level, I love the traditions of spirit distillation, and the fact that there are usually rules, like that Scotch can only be made from barley, and rum from sugarcane, whereas vodka can be made from any ingredient in which starch can be converted to sugar, be it potatoes, wheat, rye, grass, corn, soy beans or whatever the distiller finds laying around.

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