You may have seen them popping up on restaurant menus around Columbia over the past year: Congaree Milling Co.’s hominy grits. And unless you’re a maize scholar, you probably didn’t think much of it.

Highly processed kernels from a can? Heresy! Few summertime things satisfy like fresh, sweet, juicy corn. Why would anyone deviate from something so sacred? Consider hominy. Unless "grits" are ...

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Like many foods that have been around for centuries, the grits available in supermarkets, although serviceable, are distant cousins of their forebears. Grits are a corn product: They are derived from ...

Grits and cornmeal are close relatives. The two cousins are made from dent corn, which has slightly larger, starchier kernels than other varieties and a characteristic dimple on the top of each mature ...

Corn is a staple food throughout the world, and this sweet starch takes on many diverse forms. It's the base of cornflakes in our breakfast cereal, the main ingredient for making tortillas, and popped ...

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If you’ve ever searched for ground corn in the dry goods section of your grocery store, you know: It can be rather confusing. There’s cornmeal and grits and polenta, oh my! Cornmeal is available in ...

ON A RECENT morning, Robert Newton leaned on the bar at Seersucker, his Brooklyn, N.Y., restaurant, watching diners tuck into breakfast, Southern-style. The Arkansas-bred chef noted that getting ...

It all started with a can of hominy. A dear friend of mine happened upon hominy in the grocery store and it piqued her curiosity. “What the heck is hominy, and what do you do with it?” she inquired. I ...