A lack of official labeling guidelines and a lot of overlap among the terms can lead to confusion. Here's what you need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The big blue mural on the side of the tall pink building at the corner of Rutledge and Cannon has ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When the newly renovated Greek Revival-style building at 207 Rutledge Ave. was stripped of its iconic 10-foot mural, Charleston appeared to be losing an important piece of its culinary history. But ...