Tina,
Aren't grits made from hominy and polenta from the whole kernel?
Leo Wesson
www.leowesson.com
On Aug 30, 2013, at 15:26, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Go to Charleston and have shrimp and grits at Husks. Better than any
> polenta, anywhere! If you buy Bob's Red Mill Stone Ground Grits, it says on
> the package: (also known as polenta). They are the exact same grain and
> grind. Difference is in the preparation.
>
> Love my grits!
>
> Tina
>
> On Friday, August 30, 2013, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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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