Our friend Joe, showing us a very old copper kettle, and how his mother-in-law made traditional polenta in the original, old kitchen. I loved how the old wood stove catched the light.
Homemade polenta is one of the most emblematic dishes of the northern Italian cuisines. It is also one of the oldest foods eaten in Italy, dating back at least to 990 BCE. In its original form, polenta—known to the ancient Romans as pulmentum—was a porridge made from spelt. In later ages around the 1600s, after maize, a New World grain, was introduced into Italy by the Venetians, polenta took on the form we know today.
