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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Venture too far out of the Southern U.S. and grits quickly disappear from restaurant menus and grocery store shelves alike, but for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before you can master making a perfect pot of grits, you've got to choose the right ground corn for the job. Read on for the most ...

Of all the lost causes over which tears have been shed in the South, none is closer to my stomach than the inability of that region’s statesmen and soldiers to convince the rest of the nation to eat ...

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 ...