She folded a corncake in half and shoved it into her mouth.

Earwig stuffed a huge piece of a corncake into his mouth.

Oak-smoked salmon would make a fine beginning to a meal if it came with more than one measly little corncake on the side.

For example, the main course will be barbecued squab with apple crumbs and foie gras corncake.

I particularly like the Colombian arepa, a sweet corncake topped with pulled beef and a really spicy green tomato sauce.

Better was some shredded chicken on an arepa, the South American corncake that is done well almost everywhere, and exceptionally well here.

Nat fed Eve a bit of corncake and fruit juice, and the colonists applauded Eve's gurgling smile.

On September 7, rip currents produced by Luis caused the death of one person near Corncake Inlet, North Carolina.

Almond corncake, although a little dry and grainy, comes with a gratifyingly oozy blueberry compote and a creamy corn flan.

Poached eggs on corncake are a great combination, surrounded by a luscious creamy corn sauce (called a sweet corn relish on the menu).

A fat corncake stuffed with jack cheese ($3.75), for example, is delicious in a surprising way, with flecks of jalapeno, served on a bed of green tomato chutney.

As HMS Corncake the airfield was used by the Fleet Air Arm for squadrons working up for carrier duty.

Best dishes: Corncake, pan-fried oysters, grilled chicken sandwich, roast lamb, roasted trout, pear-apple crisp, raspberry crumb pie and chocolate peanut butter pie.

And that tequila-cured salmon on a green chili corncake comes with an icy shot of El Tesoro Plata on the side; it is enough to make a confirmed tequila drinker out of anyone.

WHAT WE LIKE - Smoked salmon, duck liver mousse, most soups, poached eggs on corncake, curry chicken baguette, most sandwiches, goat cheese salad, Angus burger and almost all the desserts.

In addition to the usual bacon and eggs, there are some 30 varieties of arepa, a round corncake filled with, for example, a fried egg, bacon and grated queso blanco (a bland white cheese); it is grilled or skillet-fried.

Nor is it the only dish I've learned about in the last couple of years to employ canned corn: my sometime co-author Jean-Georges Vongerichten prepares a moist, sweet corncake that he insists loses its character when made with fresh corn.

Other specialties are the tostada aguacate ($4.50), a crispy tortilla layered with creamy avocado, refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo and shredded cheese, and the hearty sopes ($5.50), spongy "boats" of corncake filled with chicken, sausage or avocado.

More coherent are the crackling barbecued squab atop a moist corncake with sauteed foie gras, beets and roasted pistachios, and the spit-roasted leg of lamb and grilled baby lamb chops with scalloped potatoes and spelt, a Middle Eastern grain similar to buckwheat.

The southern end of the island was separated from Bald Head Island by Corncake Inlet until the inlet was shoaled and closed in 1999 by Hurricane Floyd; thus, technically Pleasure Island and Bald Head Island are not separate islands.

In terms of amount of food per plate, she's probably right, especially if you order the bandeja Pachas ($9), which includes a thin grilled steak, a footlong strip of fried pork skin with flavorful meat clinging to it, two fried eggs, a plump corncake, avocado slices, half a sweet plantain and, of course, rice and beans.