Re: [lace-chat] Re: What are Grits?

[jeanette]

Maize meal ( what Americans would call corn) is the staple diet in most of 
Africa.  Some is finely ground and some coarser, some white, some yellow and 
mostly eaten just plain.  It is very popular with a barbecue just cooked in 
water and salt to what we call a very stiff porridge, and then served with a 
sauce made from tomatoes, onions, green peppers and whatever.  The past few 
years a dish appeared similar to what Joy Beeson describes as a Tamale pie 
except that there is no ground beef in but just the savoury filling and then 
baked in the oven.
Africans living abroad really miss the corn meal.  My son lives in Dubai and 
we wanted some corn meal to make to go with a barbecue and then could only 
find grits in the supermarket but it did the job just fine.  We found it 
amusing that a South African woman visiting Dubai, would buy American grits 
to make a traditional  South African dish!  Now there are so many South 
Africans in Dubai that the real thing is available in the supermarkets!
Food, and most other things, are becoming so globalized that it is difficult 
to find traditional restaurants in any country.  Now you can have a pizza 
everywhere in the world and not just in Italy.  Will grits become 
globalized - probably not!!

Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. 

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