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Grits are often part of the dinner entrée shrimp and grits, served primarily in the Southern United States. [2] The word "grits" is derived from the Old English word grytt, meaning "coarse meal". [3] In the Charleston, South Carolina area, cooked hominy grits were primarily referred to as "hominy" until the 1980s. [4] [5]
Hominy can be ground coarsely for grits, or into a fine mash dough used extensively in Latin American cuisine. Many islands in the West Indies, notably Jamaica, also use hominy (known as cornmeal or polenta , though different from Italian polenta ) to make a sort of porridge with corn starch or flour to thicken the mixture and condensed 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.
In Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia and Croatia, (durum) semolina is known as (Hartweizen-)Grieß (a word related to "grits") and is mixed with egg to make Grießknödel, which can be added to soup. The particles are fairly coarse, between 0.25 and 0.75 millimeters in diameter.
One Charleston chef says he’ll often hear some variation of: “These grits are great. We were scared but got them anyway. What are they?”
In Mexico and Central America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla (/ t ɔːr ˈ t iː ə /, Spanish: [toɾˈtiʝa]) is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy, that is the whole kernels of maize treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization.
Bowl of grits. For some people, grits are a pantry staple. Made from ground corn, they’re a super versatile food. For example, mixed with sugar and fruit, grits can be a delicious alternative to ...
The incorporation into Spanish of learned, or "bookish" words from its own ancestor language, Latin, is arguably another form of lexical borrowing through the influence of written language and the liturgical language of the Church. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period, most literate Spanish-speakers were also literate in ...