We have a grist mill about three miles from our house. They are open
3-4 days a week, and always on Friday and Saturday.

We get the stone ground cornmeal for $1.00 for a 2 lb bag, and the same
for grits; which is just a coarser grind. They sell them at the local
Farmer's Mkt., but charge another 50 cents.

I know Tyler Florence's mother, and he cut his teeth on a restaurant
down on the corner from us, where he could peel 5lbs of shrimp in 20
minutes. Anyway, I watched him make creamy grits on one of his shows;
and he used cornmeal instead of grits. I think it's all the same, but
I'm not an afficionado of them.

I do like shrimp and grits though; but never had it, or heard of it
until we moved to South Carolina. I always eat them with butter and
sugar unless I have red eye gravy or over easy eggs.

Libby