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21 Cornmeal Recipes From 17 Cuisines.

Dried maize milled to a meal, and the daily staple starch for a very large share of Africa and the American South. Stiff porridges built from it carry other names in every country: ugali in Kenya and Tanzania, pap in South Africa, banku and kenkey in Ghana, sadza further south. Grind size decides everything, from silky grits to coarse gritty pap. Whisk it into liquid off the heat or in a steady stream, because dumping it in produces lumps that never dissolve.

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