WP-Bloomberg correction: FOOD-CORN

This correction refers to FOOD-CORN (Ferdman, Post), moved Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — A Washington Post article about the ubiquity of corn in the American diet omitted a word in a statement about why Europeans resist corn. Betty Fussell, the author of "The Story of Corn," said that the Old World, not the world, is a wheat culture.

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The Washington Post News Service, with Bloomberg News


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