Looking for a mild, comforting, and super-simple dish? This creamy polenta is the perfect recipe to accompany stewed meat, roasted vegetables, or even to enjoy on its own, with a good drizzle of olive ...

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 ...

These dishes show how versatile Italian-style cornmeal is, including crisp fried squares and lemony cakes. Molly McArdle is Food & Wine's Updates Editor. She has written and edited stories about food, ...

You can go to a fancy store and buy a fancy 24-ounce bag of cornmeal for polenta, and it will cost you $3.99. I think that’s hilarious. In recent years, chefs at many of the best restaurants have ...

It's amazing what difference a dish's name can make. Polenta, the Italian name for ground corn cooked in liquid to a creamy smooth texture, has gustatory appeal. But corn meal mush, our blunt and ...

Growing up in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, I was surrounded by strong women and talented home cooks who could make delicious meals from the simplest of ingredients. My great-grandmother, grandmother, ...

In Italy’s Piedmont region, where polenta may be better loved than anywhere else on Earth, the cornmeal mush is a food of the fall. When the air turns crisp with the first frost and people await the ...