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corn meal

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noun

  1. Also called: Indian meal.  meal made from maize

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Among dishes she has prepared are Ghana’s banku — fermented corn meal balls in a soup — as well as the spicy jollof rice enjoyed across West Africa.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

The box includes a pound of beautiful blue corn meal from Ancestral Foods, a Native-owned company based in Albuquerque.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

When we get to the “2% or less” portion of the label, we find wheat gluten, corn meal, pearled barley, rye, triticale and malted barley flour.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022

In the lab, they are fed a standard diet consisting of a slurry of malt, corn meal, yeast, agar and syrup.

From Scientific American • Oct. 2, 2019

A pinch of corn meal lay white on the palm; he breathed on it, murmured a few words, then threw it, a handful of white dust, towards the sun.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley