cornmeal

Take cornmeal: an ingredient most often associated with warm-weather classics like battered fish or cornbread.

But cornmeal is also thirsty, and my first attempt — which leaned on a mixture of olive oil, melted butter and a single egg for moisture — was dry, almost crumbly.

Varying methods of stirring "fungee", a cornmeal paste which also hails from the mother continent, and precisely what to add to it is another subject of friendly bickering.

My three most used ingredients right now would have to be cornmeal, seasoning meat and sorghum molasses.

I still remember when his business was a small warehouse space, a tiny upstairs office and a single mill to process blue corn into cornmeal.