Cornmeal is dried, ground field corn (not the same type of sweet corn we eat off the cob) that ranges in texture from fine to medium to coarse. The size of the grind indicates how fast the cornmeal ...

Semolina flour and cornmeal are often listed as interchangeable when you want to add a little crunch to something baked or to make a pizza stop sticking to the pan, but don't let those uses convince ...

It seems so simple. You want to make corn bread or polenta or maybe a cornmeal-crusted fish fillet, and the recipe calls for cornmeal. So you head for the baking aisle at the grocery store to pick ...

Some think cornmeal kills ants, but pros say that's a myth. Cornmeal, sugar, and borax can bait ants, but cornmeal alone doesn't work. To prevent ants, keep things clean, take out trash, and seal up ...

Frying fish at home can be intimidating. It takes multiple steps to get the coating to stick to your fillets, and normally you would have to rush through them while your oil’s at the right temperature ...

Once, at a dinner party, a woman turned to me and said, “It’s a shame you don’t have a food heritage.” The fellow guest, who had Hungarian roots, seemed to be dismissing my generations-deep American ...

In 1967, Helmut Winter made international headlines for flinging some serious dumplings. Outraged at the low-flying military aircraft over his home in Pasing, near Munich, Germany, Winter began firing ...