An empty U-Haul truck rattled for hours down twisting backroads in southeast Missouri last week to an Old Order Mennonite community of 25 families outside Fredericktown.
At the wheel was a vegetable broker on a secretive culinary mission. St. Louis Public Radio has agreed not to use his name in this story because he’s afraid of losing his day job.
His prize: a handful of gnarled, infected corn ears that some St. Louisans are paying top dollar for…