Scenic Route from NYC to Indian Lake, NY to Saranac Lake NY

DrewE wrote:

mikestock wrote:
Be sure and buy some corn.

Being from Alabama, where the corn is grown everywhere, I never guessed that the best corn I ever had, would come from a roadside stand in upper NY, near Lake Ontario.

You have to come at the right time of year to get fresh sweet corn, though; generally sometime in or around the month of August. It's in season for nowhere near long enough.

I agree that there is little tastier than really fresh corn, as in on the plant to between the teeth within a few hours. Being a day old makes a noticeable difference.

An aunt who lived in PA used to send us kiddos to the vegetable patch to pick corn while she boiled a pot of water. We'd come back after throwing corn silk at each other and straight into the pot it would go for a minute so the corn was hot but starch hadn't time to develop:).

I seem to recall reading an article that newer, starchier, more disease resistant varieties of corn are now the norm and it changes how we cook and taste 'em.
I'm looking to step back in time during this trip to a time when it took 2 years for Christmas and birthdays to come; the summer seemed to stretch endlessly and it always ended the same day I handed in my "What I Did this Summer" report to the teacher.