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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bulbous black fungus (Ustilago maydis) that infects corn, producing silvery, swollen, pebblelike kernels. The kernels have a smoky-sweet flavor and are sometimes harvested and used in a variety of Mexican dishes. Also called corn smut, maize mushroom, Mexican truffle.

Etymologies

  1. American Spanish, from Nahuatl quitlacochtli : quitlatl, dung + cochtli, asleep. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Besides discussing foraging, the book is a lavishly illustrated tour of cutting-edge wild cuisines, from Mateo's roasted veal chop with morel and cacao sauce to a cuitlacoche and squash blossom quesadilla, using the corn smut that Mexican cuisine honors and Midwestern farmers abhor.”

    USA Today: Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi

  • “The name huitlacoche (also cuitlacoche) comes from two indigenous words: cuitlatl (excrement) and cochi (sleeping).”

    The Huffington Post: Corn Smut Delicacy Huitlacoche Is Good For You

  • “We also touched on cuitlacoche, but that's for another time.”

    Setas y Hongos

  • “After living here since the end of September, 2005, I am at last ready to cook with some cuitlacoche.”

    Cooking with Common SMUT!!

  • “There are basic recipes for preparing cuitlacoche, as well as weird stuff, like ice cream!”

    Cooking with Common SMUT!!

  • “The restaurant next to the gallery is El Fortin, and the food is fabulous .... the sopa de cuitlacoche, with sherry, is divine.”

    San Sebastian del Oeste et al

  • “They thought I was nuts asking for field corn, but you should have seen the look on their faces when I asked them for cuitlacoche!”

    Not Sweet Corn

  • “I always wondered that about cuitlacoche, the black mushroom that grows on corn.”

    Mushroom Bisque

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