How many varieties of corn do you know? Well, maybe you don’t imagine the number of varieties that there are of this cereal, I got perplexed and deranged when I read that in the world exists around 220 this is according to a group of people from Latin America who studied about this topic.These varieties have differences in terms of grain shape, color, texture and the shape of the cob, since there are from elongated and finer ears to rounder ears and wide. Now talking about the oldness y the most convincing proof of the antiquity of corn, comes from the south part of US (New Mexico), it is calculated that can be approximately 2,000 years before the Christian Era but we have studies from Peru which has made by a group of scientists found grains and ears of corn in the north of the country that date back 7, 200 years, determining that the origin of this product is Peruvian. We need to consider that this discovery make questions about the origin of corn, since Mexico also disputes ownership. Here we have 53 races of corn, identified and cataloged, something that does not exist in Mexico or in any other part of the world... In Peru we use the corn in different ways in our gastronomy we can prepare it from a soft drink (purple corn) to in deserts ( mazamorra).