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Quote number 12 is by Garrison Keillor: “People have tried and tried, but sex is not better than sweet corn.”

This is certainly one of the great truths of summer, isn’t it?

I just had the epitome of the summer dinner – two ears of fresh sweet corn and two fresh tomato sandwiches.

Although these days I cook the corn in the microwave, the tenderness of tonight’s ears was beyond belief. I shook off just a few kernals for maggie, who likes corn, but other than that I wasn’t willing to share. A little butter, and that’s all you need.

I normally prefer white toast for tomato sandwiches, but this was a bakery marble rye bread. Thick slices of strong rye toast, generously spread with Hellman’s best, slices of dark red tomato and coarse black pepper.

A several-napkin meal which could have gone on course after course. Gather ye sweet corn while ye may – it’s a short season in upstate New York!