Why Meat Causes Inflammation. The anti-inflammatory effect of plant-based diets is about more than just the power of plants. Itâs also the avoidance of animal foods. In my Care2 column last week, Dietary Treatment for Crohns Disease, I profiled the extraordinary power of even a semi-vegetarian diet to calm inflammatory bowel disease.
Grits are made of dried corn kernels. Grits are made of dried kernels of corn. The hull and germ are removed, producing hominy, a food Native Americans have eaten for thousands of years, according to the University of South Carolina's South Carolina by Food publication.
Good Hominy Grits. Had you lived in deep country 150 years ago, you might have had, in the yard near your kitchen, both a samp mill and an ash hopper. The samp mill was a giant mortar and pestle made from a tree stump and a block of wood. The block was suspended from a tree branch that acted as a spring.