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What it is: The Italian word for milled corn or cornmeal, polenta is to northern Italians what pasta is to southerners. Corn flour, cornmeal, and grits are dry, ground corn products that differ only by grain size: Corn flour is the finest, cornmeal a bit thicker, and grits even coarser. Most cornmeal today is manufactured without the hull and germ, ... (Full article: 366 words)
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