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Default Help On A Mystery Italian Meal

"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> ZerkonX > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>

>
> The corn meal stuff is called "Polenta" and the tomato sauce could be
> any number of recipes, my favorite of which is Marinara.



In some regions of Italy, and well as here at my estate, it's sometimes made
with buckwheat.