Sweet blueberries and cherries have made way for peaches (already at their peak), tomatoes, melons and sweet corn.
Two years ago the moratorium was lifted and a modified strain of sweet corn, grown mainly in the US, was allowed onto the market.
In a display of trend-consciousness, each night focused on an ingredient in season locally: Menus were built around watermelon, heirloom tomatoes, lobster and sweet corn.
The sweet corn we eat for dinner would be a shriveled gray precursor called teosinte were it not for the activity of a handful of genes.
The ruling would allow companies to sell the GM sweet corn in tins, clearly labelled as a GM product, but growing the crop would still be illegal.
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The phone call came late one August afternoon as my older sister Gracie and I sat out on the back porch shucking the sweet corn into the big tin buckets.
When I say that Gracie and I were shucking the sweet corn, what I actually mean is that Gracie was shucking the corn and I was drawing a diagrammatic map in one of my little blue spiral notebooks of precisely how she was shucking the corn.
"I feel like I'm an entertainer every day, whether I'm trying to convince somebody that mine's the best sweet corn to buy in the valley, or that dropping a few dollars at the gate to go into the corn maze is a good idea, " said Keith Stocker.
The onions are used in a recipe for roasted sweet summer corn, whose master stroke is a sauce made from butter and white miso paste.
Best bets: heirloom squash and chestnut soup, coriander-seared duck breast with roasted parsnip and sweet potato sauce, pan-seared trout with sweet pea and corn pancakes.
Corn, sweet potato sprinkled with cinnamon, rice and beans, garlic, avocado, and codfish all get whipped into ice cream, as well as what seems like almost every available seasonal fruit, including quenepa, which only exists on the island.
In my case, that means turkey with sausage and corn bread stuffing--I favor Jimmy Dean sausage and my mother's corn bread recipe--also sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and several kinds of pie.
Where bourbon is primarily made of corn, giving the whiskey a smooth and sweet flavor profile, rye is at least 51% of its namesake grain, lending it a spicier, fuller bodied, angular taste.
Food stalls dish out hearty country dishes like locro (a meaty stew from northwest Argentina), deep-fried empanadas, and humitas (lightly sweetened corn meal wrapped in corn husks), all washed down with sweet patero wine - this is La Feria de Mataderos, an authentic celebration of Argentine country traditions.
Now, he is collaborating with pop singer Katy Perry, who has also invested in the company, on her own line of sweet-and-salty Popchips called Katy's Kettle Corn, which launched last month.
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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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