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.

What are grits? Well... you’d be surprised to learn that there’s a much longer history to the word “Grit.” Before European explorers came west, the indigenous people of North America were eating a ...

When I lived in Tennessee I learned quite a few quaint Southern colloquialisms, got used to being called “Ma’am”, and that there are grits and G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised in the South). Outside of the ...

All hominy is corn, but not all corn is hominy. We break it down and explain what hominy really is. The post What Is Hominy ...

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 ...