As we rode from Beijing to the Great Wall, our
driver took us through the local areas where the farmers were using the side of
the roads to process their crops.  For
long stretches, the corn was heaped into big piles waiting to be
processed.  Further along, the corn had
somehow been taken off the cob and laid into yellow ribbons on the
pavement.  It would be fascinating to
understand their entire process from farm to table.