Set butter out to soften to room temperature. Set oven to 275ºF. Place cleaned garlic cloves into a small oven safe pan and cover with the olive oil. Place foil on top of pan tight. Place pan into ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I eat a lot of corn and corn products. I love ...

In Italy’s Piedmont region, where polenta may be better loved than anywhere else on Earth, the cornmeal mush is a food of the fall. When the air turns crisp with the first frost and people await the ...

If you’ve ever searched for ground corn in the dry goods section of your grocery store, you know: It can be rather confusing. There’s cornmeal and grits and polenta, oh my! Cornmeal is available in ...

We know that whole grains are good for us and we should eat more of them. When it comes to cooked grains, oatmeal, quinoa, and brown rice may come to mind. Not many of us will think of corn. Corn is a ...

Inspired by Schie con Polenta in Venice, Italy, David McCann tops simple polenta with garlicky, buttery shrimp he's cooked in white wine and chicken stock. David McCann is a food writer, recipe ...

And don't even get me started on those tubes of precooked polenta. They're fine for frying or grilling (searing covers a multitude of sins), but they're not in the ballpark when it comes to soft ...