Hominy

Hominy is a Mesoamerican food produced from dried maize (corn) kernels treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization. "Lye hominy" is hominy made with lye. The word "hominy" comes from the Powhatan -homen, literally, "that treated .

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