An curved arrow pointing right. Huitlacoche, also known as the "Mexican truffle," is an edible fungus that forms on undeveloped corn ears and sells for as much as $40 a pound. Discovered by the Aztecs ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hidden amid the glitz and glamor of Colorado’s latest Michelin awards, announced in mid-September, is an unexpected ingredient common to several of the ...

"Corn smut" is the most common, reframing the fungus as spoiled corn rather than as an ingredient in its own right. An American name that gets the point across even more bluntly is "devil's corn," ...