Cornmeal is dried, ground field corn (not the same type of sweet corn we eat off the cob) that ranges in texture from fine to medium to coarse. The size of the grind indicates how fast the cornmeal ...

Semolina flour and cornmeal are often listed as interchangeable when you want to add a little crunch to something baked or to make a pizza stop sticking to the pan, but don't let those uses convince ...

Some think cornmeal kills ants, but pros say that's a myth. Cornmeal, sugar, and borax can bait ants, but cornmeal alone doesn't work. To prevent ants, keep things clean, take out trash, and seal up ...

Maputi are puffed corn kernels, a popular snack across Zimbabwe. They are prepared by heating dried maize kernels until they explode into light, airy pieces. Maputi can be enjoyed plain or flavored ...

Buying ingredients for cornbread should entail more than walking into the grocery store and blindly picking any bag that says "CORNMEAL" from the shelves. According to senior food editor Rick Martinez ...

Like many Americans, I grew up associating Italian meals with pasta and bread. The first time I traveled in northern Italy, I ...

It seems so simple. You want to make corn bread or polenta or maybe a cornmeal-crusted fish fillet, and the recipe calls for cornmeal. So you head for the baking aisle at the grocery store to pick ...

Once, at a dinner party, a woman turned to me and said, “It’s a shame you don’t have a food heritage.” The fellow guest, who had Hungarian roots, seemed to be dismissing my generations-deep American ...