A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, e.g., tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, or chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke. In Israeli Hebrew it is often spelled ×¦××¦×§×¢, [Ëtsats.ke], with a tsade instead of teth-shin, as in Yiddish.
At first, corn was only a garden curiosity in Europe, but it soon began to be recognized as a valuable food crop. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern Africa.
Corn (maize) wasn't really discovered so much as developed by the native peoples of northern Mexico, possibly as much as 12,000 years ago. It's unclear exactly which plants they started with in the development process, but one of them may have been teosinte, a tall native grass with its seeds where the tassels are on modern corn plants.