Cornmeal Curse

Why Polenta?

“Pulte, non pane vixisse longo tempore Romanos manifestum” “Rome will live long on polenta, not bread”. Thus Seneca in the first century ACE, bemoaning the sybaritic habits of his contemporaries and attributing a decline in Roman morals to, well, a lack of fibre. Polenta (from the Latin puls), is one of the world’s most archaic dishes, found from ancien…