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Ina Garten Uses This Pantry Staple To Enhance The Sweetness Of Her Corn Salad By Maria Scinto Oct. 19, 2025 6:00 pm EST

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These days, Mexican-style corn salads like elote en vaso seem to be all the rage. Back in the '90s, though, Ina Garten was making a corn salad that was meant to be sweet rather than spicy. Her recipe for fresh corn salad, published in her 1999 opus " The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook ," not only includes the eponymous ingredient, which is fairly sweet as vegetables go, but also features another ingredient meant to intensify this flavor: cider vinegar.

Cider vinegar is typically made from fermented apples, which have a high amount of sugar. The resulting product, while it may not have

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