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Kasha
Across Slavic cooking, kasha names a broad family of porridges made from cooked grains or groats. It has a long place in Russian food traditions and other Eastern European cuisines. In English usage, the word often means roasted buckwheat specifically, whose earthy flavor and distinct grain texture differ from a smooth rice or oat porridge. Buckwheat is a seed used like a grain, rather than a type...
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Polenta
Boiled cornmeal gives modern polenta its characteristic yellow or white color and a texture that can range from loose and creamy to firm. Closely associated with northern Italy, especially regions such as Lombardy and Veneto, it became an important staple after maize arrived from the Americas in the sixteenth century. Earlier forms of polenta used other grains, so the dish's history predates its f...
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