Rostrato O denta cane Piedmontese Polenta

 Rostrato O denta cane Piedmontese Polenta:       Growing up I never had polenta, we ate mush. For most of my life I thought mush was a Pennsylvania German tradition. Turns out its Native American and acculturated by my family (PA German) when they came to this land. Welschkann (Welschhinkel- my favorite PA German word means- strange chicken.) Welschkann means strange grain, corn is an old English word for the size of something. (Corn beefed hash- yeah no yellow stuff in it) My Grand pop Haas always made scrapple and mush. His mush would be eaten as he was making it. Warm, mash potato-like side that we would fight over because we were not allowed to eat lots of because it was destined to the pan. In the pan, it would cool in the refrigerator overnight and then be sliced and fried in a skillet and eaten with maple syrup as scrapple was. Then I had a braised lamb neck over cheese polenta and my life changed. I did a deep dive into polenta, grits, mush, and porridge and came out the other end growing 10+ of the rarest maizes from the piedmont of Italy. Turns out some guy went to the piedmont in the ’50s, collected a bunch of corn that had been grown there since it came back with Columbus. In the ’70s ’90s and 2000’s people have followed this path again to see which maize’s were still being grown. From the piedmont of Italy to the piedmont of North America we grow, dried, ground, and cooked as many as we could get. These are the best of what we found. Rostrato O denta cane Piedmontese. I got Otto File a few years ago from a disappointed ex-employee of the Stone Barn I grow it and it was really great, but then I got this corn, and it was all over for Otto. This is orange beaked corn that grinds into one of the best polentas you will ever make.

about 190 oz.