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Polenta (Polente or Poleinte in France) is cornmeal boiled into a porridge and eaten directly or baked fried or grilled. When cooked it has a warm jelly-like soft inside with a crunchy outside. The term is of Italian origin derived from the Latin for hulled and crushed grain (especially barley-meal). It comes from the same base as pollen. Maize was not cultivated in Europe until the early 16th century.
