I recently returned from a trip to Iowa where Bruce and I visited his parents and a few nieces and nephews. Bruce is from Iowa and we actually lived there a couple years in our early days of marriage and the main thing I remember about those days is all the corn. Lots and lots of corn growing in Iowa. Everywhere you look. I didn't know until I moved to Iowa that all this corn you see is growing to feed cattle, not for people. I remember when Bruce started explaining to me how it all works. The Iowa corn goes to animal feed, or for seeds to grown more corn, or for making inexpensive additives for processed foods. I was so confused about it at the time. But it did explain why Bruce always called corn-on-the-cob "sweet corn". I finally said to him during our early days of dating in Seattle, "why do you always say 'sweet corn', all corn is sweet!" I wasn't from Iowa so I didn't know that there was 'seed corn' and '...