Hello all and thanks for your time.

Not so long ago, my wife and I were watching an Italian TV mini-series
named "Lives Of The Saints". In it there was a rural family dinner scene
and the meal was something I had never seen before so I thought some one
may help.

It looked like the main, or only 'dish' was made up of two parts. One was
a corn meal/grits type of thing the other being tomato sauce/gravy.

The service was composed of the corn meal being literally spread out onto
the entire surface of the long dinner table with the tomato sauce spread
on top. The family then sat and ate this off of the table.

There was no big deal made of it. No dialog, at least none that was
translated, made reference to what this was. It looked regional and
traditional to say the least.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks for your time.