Hominy

Making hominy gets to the core of slow food cooking. It’s a process that takes forethought and time, and though the concept is understandable the Complexities of Simplicity emerge. Simple is not necessarily simple. Pre-Columbian cultures began the practice of ‘nixtamalization’ in Mesoamerica. It involes soaking the kernels of maize in alkaline wood ash to release protein, calcium, niacin and other micro-nutients, and removes fungal-mycotoxins from stored corn. They then rinsed and slow-cooked the soaked corn in clay pots and
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