Whats the difference between polenta and grits?
Polenta is a boiled, slow-cooked cornmeal “mush” — typically made with coarsely ground yellow corn meal. In some regions of Italy (especially in the north), it’s a beloved everyday dish and is topped with meat, fish, pasta sauce, cheese, or vegetables. Cooled and hardened, polenta can be sliced, sauted, or grilled, and served sweet or savory. Or you can create a layered polenta torta, reminiscent of a lasagne. Recently, NPR’s “Morning Edition” show celebrated the extraordinary history of polenta’s close cousin, grits. The segment is titled Grits, Present at the Creation. Grits are “coarsely ground pieces of dried corn moistened into a mealy paste” that have a mythic role in Southern culinary culture. Historians suggest that grits played an important role in early Southern agriculture, providing food for the first English settlers in Jamest
