Halloween, more than almost any other holiday, is about fun. It’s like New Year’s, but with corn syrup instead of booze. It began with the Gaelic festival Samhain, which celebrated the end of harvest ...

It’s getting so you can’t take a step without treading on an ear or two of corn. That’s a good thing. Of all the wonders that the Americas have given to the world, perhaps corn is the most wondrous of ...