On 8/30/2013 3:48 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Tina wrote;
>
>> Girls Raised In The South love GRITS! ;-) Just our name for polenta!
> I had to look up grits and polenta in Wikipedia to find out what you are
> discussing.
Technically, Tina is right. However, I have yet to have grits that come close
in culinary quality to even a decent
polenta. Such may exist, but is not easily encountered in my casual travels in
the US South.
Grits is bib overalls with faded flannel shirt in a yard full of the remains of
defunct cars and farm equipment. First
class polenta is a stylish young couple eating at a nice restaurant in Rome
(Italy, not Georgia). :-)
I've had bad grits and better grits. The best I've had is decent food, but as
yet never good enough to be preferred to
alternatives.
> Neither word is any part of the vocabulary in New Zealand - practically quite
> unknown.
>
> It seems that they take the place as a staple diet item of potatoes, which are
> very much a staple here. I feel deprived if the evening meal doesn't have
> potato - boiled, boiled and mashed, roasted. The best variety is Agria, a
> yellow-fleshed Dutch variety..
Huh. A wide variety of starchy foods is a normal part of the diet here, and, I
think, in many parts of the world.
Potatoes every day would be weird and limiting, to me. We have Irish immigrant
friends who don't eat potatoes every day.
:-)
> ...
>
> I'm not quite so stuck in a rut now, and often cook noodles, rice, risotto (
> bought ready to cook in a packet), and spaghetti.
No quinoa yet? :-) Here, I'm eating grains and tubers I never even knew existed
until recently.
Moose D'Opinion
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