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nated in Mexico. The word “maize” comes from the Indian word “making”. America’s settlers learned how to grow it from the Indians for whom it was a vital crop. To distinguish the new grain from what they had brought with them from the “old country,” the colonists called it “Indian com” and eventually, just “com.”
In its’ early years, corn’s usefulness was not limited to the kernels. The Periwians obtained sugar from its stalks; the Mexicans made a honey-like substance, and the tropical natives made a kind of beer or
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