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 ...

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.

When Glen's original dinner plans fall apart at the grocery store, he turns a pound of ground beef and a handful of ingredients already in the fridge into a hearty, delicious casserole. Inspired by ...

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

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 ...

If you’ve ever searched for ground corn in the dry goods section of your grocery store, you know: It can be rather confusing. There’s cornmeal and grits and polenta, oh my! Cornmeal is available in ...

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ON A RECENT morning, Robert Newton leaned on the bar at Seersucker, his Brooklyn, N.Y., restaurant, watching diners tuck into breakfast, Southern-style. The Arkansas-bred chef noted that getting ...

Making hominy from scratch is a rather tedious multistep process, which is why most of us simply go to the grocery store and buy it. Ready-to-eat canned hominy includes a little liquid, like other ...

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 ...