Inside the kitchen at Poca Madre, past the hotel pans full of grilled pineapple paddles and ducks confiting in their own fat, chef de cuisine Faiz Ally holds a pinkish-purple ball of ground corn ...

‘Bloody Butcher’ usually takes 110 days for full maturity. You can actually eat this corn fresh in the milk stage if you want. You can use it to roast or for stews — it’s just not sweet like hybrid ...