Boil ground corn and you get, depending on where you’re from, polenta, grits, gruel, mămăligă, or one other of the dozens of things different cultures call cornmeal mush. Culinary hair ...

There’s cornmeal and grits and polenta ... are either just the dishes made from cooking dried ground corn into a mush or also the ingredients themselves. Regarding the dishes, “Theoretically ...

As it turns out, grits can be yellow and cornmeal can be white or blue, and both can be coarse or fine, but the other stuff is still true (unless you ask my husband, who won't get near fried mush).

There’s cornmeal and grits and polenta ... are either just the dishes made from cooking dried ground corn into a mush or also the ingredients themselves. Regarding the dishes, “Theoretically ...

Cornmeal, grits, and polenta are largely unregulated ... Polenta dates back to ancient Roman times and was originally a term for mush or porridge made from various grains cooked with water.

It may sound horrible, but it actually can be sublime. Polenta, Indian pudding and grits, for example, are all forms of cornmeal mush. Made well, all are delicious. Cornmeal can range from a fine ...

Regular "cornmeal" in fine or medium grinds is best for baking and dredging, while medium or coarse grinds (including those labeled polenta or grits) are better suited for porridge.

Grits are made of white or yellow cornmeal, usually coarse, but also available finely ground. Grits also is the name of the mush made from the dried meal. A favorite in the South, grits can be ...

Mom didn’t discover cornmeal mush as a breakfast choice ... I am referring here to grits — the True Grits in Southern breakfasts not the John Wayne film. My first occasion on which I tasted ...

Her friends turned their noses up at the idea of eating cornmeal mush, so “I started throwing dinner parties specifically to change people’s minds about grits,” says Simmons, who started the ...