Cornhusk

Jesus Estrada, that is, the cornhusk wunderkind from Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them. ❋ Marcela Valladolid (2010)

Fold down the empty top section of the cornhusk and secure it by tying a thin strip of corn husk around the tamal (the top will be open). ❋ Marcela Valladolid (2010)

Tear a cornhusk along the grain to make threads to tie the tamale ends. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium). ❋ Rachel Dickinson (2010)

I went to a small, dark and dusty museum of "American Indians" in New York about 20 years ago which was epic FAIL I hope things have improved and came away with a cornhusk mask. ❋ Fresca (2010)

The soldiers acted first, and chased it out from under the cornhusk mattress. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I know that braided cornhusk bearings are traditionally used on great wheels. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Secure them by tying a strip of cornhusk around each tamal. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Campaigning for the Hispanic vote in Texas in 1976, Gerald Ford drew ridicule when he tried to eat a tamale without removing the cornhusk. ❋ Kevin Helliker (2008)

Little do they know that a madman is rumored to lurk in the surrounding woods, snatching away unsuspecting residents and leaving in their places stick-figure cornhusk dolls that he could have learned to make during an arts and crafts seminar taught by the Blair Witch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The large rectangular tamales were filled with tender corn meal, chicken and sauce - very tasty and very different from the cornhusk-wrapped tamales most of us think of. ❋ Unknown (2005)