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

[James]

If I remember right yes, that's it.  And from what I remember treating 
corn was origianally for flavor and the fact that lye, or wood ash 
or..., takes the skin off the kernal.  I'm not saying that eating corn 
is the only way to get a niacin deficiency but I do know that this was a 
common occurance in the areas where corn was introduced years ago.  And 
that in areas where corn is a native foodstuff this is not common at 
all, if only people would have paid attention and made some of the corn 
into homeny.

Take It Easy,
James P.

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> 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
>