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Grits with cheese, bacon, green onion and a basted egg. Grits are a type of porridge made from coarsely ground dried maize or hominy, [1] the latter being maize that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp (ovary wall) removed. Grits are cooked in warm salted water or milk.
Grits have a coarser texture, whereas cornmeal is finely ground into a flour-like substance. You can buy cornmeal in coarse, medium, fine grinds, but even the coarsest isn't often as coarse as grits.
The word continues to exist in modern dishes like grits, an American corn -based food common in the Southern United States, consisting of coarsely ground corn; and the German red grits, Rote Grütze, a traditional pudding made of summer berries and starch and sugar. Grit here was the cheap supplier of starch.
The proverb "all is grist to the mill" means "everything can be made useful, or be a source of profit." There are some minor variations, such as "all's grist that comes to his mill", meaning that the person in question can make something positive out of anything that comes along.
Although the name Franco-Provençal suggests it is a bridge dialect between French and the Provençal dialect of Occitan, it is a separate Gallo-Romance language that transitions into the Oïl languages Burgundian and Frainc-Comtou to the northwest, into Romansh to the east, into the Gallo-Italic Piemontese to the southeast, and finally into the Vivaro-Alpine dialect of Occitan to the southwest.
Grit, one of the byproducts of grinding, an abrasive machining process; Grit removal, the removal of grit, the coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage; Grit size table, fineness/coarseness classification of sandpaper grit, and compares the CAMI and "P" designations with the average grit size in micrometres (μm)
Linguists divide the Romance languages of France, and especially of Medieval France, into two main geographical subgroups: the langues d'oïl to the North, and the langues d'oc in the Southern half of France. Both groups are named after the word for "yes" in their recent ancestral languages.
Languages of Metropolitan France, Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [a] [18] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers in France Second-language (L2) speakers in France Total (L1+L2) speakers in France Alsatian: Indo-European: Germanic: 900,000 Algerian Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 1,350,000 Moroccan Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic ...