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Swiss Polenta Foodways

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Maize porridge cooked long in a copper pot, eaten with cheese, meat, mushrooms or milk. ⚠ Maize is American and reaches these valleys only after the sixteenth century; polenta before that was made from other grains, and the dish is shared with northern Italy rather than Swiss in origin.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Italian

What is recorded

  • Maize is American and reaches the southern Alps only after the sixteenth century. Polenta in Ticino and Graubünden is therefore an early-modern dish, however old it feels, and it is shared with northern Italy rather than Swiss in origin. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Northern Italian Foodways documented

    Polenta is a northern Italian and Alpine dish that Ticino and Graubünden share; it is not Swiss in origin.

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