hominy grits

Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon.

Booker, cookbook author and owner of a catering business, was responsible for the dinner’s vegetable course: roasted sweet pepper and hominy grits, served with Vidalia onions and a smoky tomato-okra gravy.

Not all have worked — most notably a beer called Shrimp and Grits that actually incorporated hominy grits and shellfish.

The smell of unfamiliar food in the air now, fish caught from the nearby river, pig knuckles, hominy grits, fried baloney, black-eyed peas.

Eat: “I want shrimp and hominy when I’m in Charleston, at whatever place doesn’t call hominy grits,” Colbert declares with the emphatic authority of his Colbert Report persona.