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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