A lack of official labeling guidelines and a lot of overlap among the terms can lead to confusion. Here's what you need to ...

Freshly made ratatouille, a tasty blend of Provençal vegetables and crispy, sautéed chicken make a quick, colorful dinner. Coating the chicken with coarse cornmeal gives it a flavorful crust without ...

Buttery yellow kernels of corn account for a number of foods we consume every day. The vegetable (sometimes classified as a grain, or even a fruit) is in everything from corn syrup in sweets, crushed ...

Polenta is a simple dish involving a combination of ground coarse cornmeal and liquid, but there’s a lot of ways you can make it pretty special. Polenta is a hearty but simple comfort food to enjoy as ...

Warm, creamy, cheesy polenta—it doesn’t get much better than that. Pair it up with something you love, or eat it plain and ...

Everyone has their go-to cornbread recipe. The thing is, most of those recipes are probably for corn cakes or corn muffins and not cornbread. Say it with me, folks, real-deal cornbread does not need ...

One afternoon, as I was preparing a Southern meal for friends coming over for dinner, I realized I had forgotten to make the cornbread. But since I keep all the ingredients on hand at all times, I ...

It may not be as trendy as kouign-amann or Cronuts, but a buttered, toasted corn muffin is a thing of beauty. By Melissa Clark When was the last time you saw a plain corn muffin out in the wild? Not a ...

Chili and cornbread are high on my list of foods that belong together. It’s not just because their flavors harmonize so well - the mellow sweetness and alluring, coarse texture of the bread playing ...

As many of us do while stepping into the new year, we hope to embrace a year filled with fortune and prosperity. In fact, to increase one’s chances of receiving such blessings, many cultures practice ...

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