Corn is a staple food throughout the world, and this sweet starch takes on many diverse forms. It's the base of cornflakes in our breakfast cereal, the main ingredient for making tortillas, and popped ...

Hominy is one of those foods you might think you’ve never tried, yet almost certainly have. Or at least a close relative of it. That’s because the ingredient that starts as hominy can end as many ...

All the things you wanted to learn about hominy but never thought to ask, plus tasty Mexican recipes that use this special corn. Can you sing hominy in three parts ...

Even if you haven’t eaten straight up nixtamal (known in the Southern US as “hominy”), you have most likely consumed nixtamalized corn in one form or another. Tortillas, masa dough, proper grits, and ...

Unless you eat a lot of pozole, you may not have encountered the puffed corn delicacy known as “hominy.” The tangy, chewy corn gets its flavor and texture from being soaked in an alkaline solution, ...

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.

My early cooking days in college were largely characterized by food that came from the middle of the grocery store. I was on a budget, so I became a whiz at making Hamburger Helper and Rice-A-Roni ...