12 Tips You Need When Making Southern-Style Grits - Chowhound

Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty Grits are a truly all-American food. While indelibly linked in the public imagination with Southern culture, the dish has roots that go even deeper — the native Muscogee people were the first to cook coarsely ground dried corn into a warm porridge. European colonists who encountered the dish happily adopted it as their own, and since then, it's been a staple at diners,…