However corn dishes such as garnachas, a kind of corn cake, are readily available, especially in the mountain areas were indigenous influence is strongest .

Households serve moles and tamales, also typical of the holiday, along with sweet squash and corn dishes, holdovers from the ancient harvest festival.

Mr. Brady provided the cheese course and Mr. Swanson sent a corn dish.

In El Salvador, pasteles are a red tinted corn flour-based dish with a stuffing of either beef or chicken with chopped potatoes and carrots.

But in many homes it is only at Thanksgiving that corn dishes are given a starring role on the menu.

Once, when my children were young and just learning American history in school, I prepared some corn dishes from Colonial recipes.

Sweet corn dishes are common traditional meals like pozol (corn soup), chorreadas (corn pancakes), etc.

The cooking of the mountains contains a wide variety of mushrooms, greens, various flowers and corn dishes.

As the year goes on, they're a good alternative to basil for flavoring fresh corn dishes, yellow squash, or sliced tomatoes (especially with blue cheese).

For a Thanksgiving dinner, Michael, the slacker, was in charge of the sides, and came up with two potato dishes and a corn dish.