{"id":48688,"date":"2026-07-15T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48688"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:46:50","slug":"letters-sweet-sweet-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-sweet-sweet-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartas: Ma\u00edz dulce, dulce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recib\u00ed una llamada de Ray Valorosi; ya ten\u00eda su ma\u00edz dulce. Fui y compr\u00e9 dos docenas. Se ve\u00eda bien y se sent\u00eda firme. Cocin\u00e9 un poco y estaba bueno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to go the Fresno State, but they lost their crop to \u201cbugs\u201d because they are organic. Tried Ray\u2019s. Really exceptional corn. Eighteen rows, tender and sweet. Why drive just to get hit or miss (corn)? See Ray, and get wonderful corn right here. I am a Midwest guy. I know good corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I boil water with salt and butter in it. Salt the ears, and place in water, until the ears change color. Just a few minutes. Butter and salt a little more, and it\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disfruta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray\u2019s stand: Road 26 1\/2, just past the Madera South High School. Almost to Avenue 12, on left (12285 Road 26 1\/2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: This message is the sole opinion of the writer? Not true. His family likes it, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014 Bill Hoffrage,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Madera<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a call from Ray Valorosi \u2014 his sweet corn was in. I went over and bought two dozen. It looked and punched good. Cooked some up, and it was good. I used to go the Fresno State, but they lost their crop to \u201cbugs\u201d because they are organic. Tried Ray\u2019s. Really exceptional corn. Eighteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,26,38],"class_list":["post-48688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48689,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions\/48689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}