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.

Some people can easily tick off the 10 best burgers they've ever had. As Southerners, sure, we could do that, but we'd rather wax poetic on the best grits we've ever had. Lowcountry shrimp and grits, ...

Grits have an incredible history in Southern cuisine, with the kitchen staple mushing and mashing their reign on spoons all over our region to this day. From a North Carolina family farm growing some ...

Geechie Boy Mill, a South Carolina maker of heirloom grits and other products, is changing its name to Marsh Hen Mill after critics charged it with appropriating Black culture. "After many days of ...

Columbia, S.C. - Many of this country's most celebrated chefs have spent hours on the phone with a man in a derelict metal warehouse behind a carwash here. He teaches them how to cook grits. Grits ...

Like many foods that have been around for centuries, the grits available in supermarkets, although serviceable, are distant cousins of their forebears. Grits are a corn product: They are derived from ...

On Jon Stauffer’s 25-acre farm in Pauline, about 150 chickens strut between swaying sunflower stalks as a handful of cows graze in the hot summer sun. Sun hemp and buckwheat grow at the base of short ...

Open up the menu at fine restaurants from California to New York, and you’ll find dishes made from Anson Mills grits. Open up Gourmet magazine, and you’re told the best grits are made by Anson Mills.

Geechie Boy Mill, a South Carolina maker of heirloom grits and other products, is changing its name to Marsh Hen Mill after critics charged it with appropriating Black culture. “After many days of ...