[Sca-cooks] Recipe: Shrimp & Grits. OOP

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach James:
>My 2 cents, Grits are not cornmeal but many people think they are. 
>Cornmeal is just made out of corn, that's polenta not grits. Grits 
>are made out of corn that's been treated with lye. Which is the way 
>you make hominy and masa for tortillas.
>
>And the reason this is done is for taste originally and also for 
>nutrition. Some of the nutrients in corn can not be absorbed unless 
>they corn is first treated with lye. This is the reason that many 
>people who once grew corn as a staple in areas where it was not 
>native, like Africa, developed a form of malnutrition years ago.

Are you thinking of pellagra? It has, at times, been as rampant in 
the American South as it has been in Africa, parts of Italy, etc. I 
wasn't aware that treating corn with alkalais was intended to combat 
it.

Adamantius

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