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.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. True grits are usually made with dried, ground ...

The big blue mural on the side of the tall pink building at the corner of Rutledge and Cannon has become one of the iconic images of Charleston. The mural features a white-clad waitress holding a tray ...

You've probably read the word "gritty" somewhere — it might even be in your personal vocabulary. Fun fact: It shares roots with a simple, but nourishing food that had fed Southerners for generations.

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Highly processed kernels from a can? Heresy! Few summertime things satisfy like fresh, sweet, juicy corn. Why would anyone deviate from something so sacred? Consider hominy. Unless "grits" are ...

Understanding the differences between polenta, grits, and cornmeal—and how best to use them—is complex and interesting, and we’ll get to that! But there’s also a short answer, so let’s start there and ...

Hog 'N Hominy Salsa Verde Stew. (Matthew Mead/The Associated Press) By ELIZABETH KARMEL It all started at my friend Anthony's house not long ago during the beginning the so-called polar vortex. He is ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I eat a lot of corn and corn products. I love ...