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Since it’s late summer and corn is in abundance across the Midwest, novelist and cookbook author Jeremy Jackson talks to us about his book, The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes, his corny life in Iowa, his favorite cornbread, and the perfect way to eat sweet corn. Try Jeremy's recipe for Ozark Cornbread.

Andy Smith is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia on Food and Drink in America as well as author of The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery and Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment With Recipes On today's show, he takes us through several centuries of the tomato and explores everything you can do with it.

All this great food needs a great drink to pair with it. And Sandy Oliver, who is both Eat Feed’s own food history specialist as well as the founder of Food History News, has the perfect suggestion: fruit shrub. Follow Sandy's recipe for homemade shrub or purchase shrub syrup from Tait Farm Foods and mix some up at home.

Music Credits: garageband.com
Chris Bayne, Corn on the Cob
Don Campau and Ken Clinger, The Perfect Tomato
The Shakewells, Farmer in the Field

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