Editing Hominy (section)

{{short description|Food item consisting of dried nixtamalized corn}}
{{Contains special characters|Cherokee}}{{other uses}}
{{Infobox food
| name             = Hominy
| image            = Hominy (maize).JPG
| image_size       = 250px
| caption          = A bowl of cooked hominy
| place_of_origin          = [[Mesoamerica]]
| region           = [[Americas]]
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| course           =
| type             = 
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| main_ingredient  = 
| minor_ingredient = Dried [[maize]] (corn) kernels, water, [[alkali]]
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}}

'''Hominy''' is a food item produced from dried [[maize]] (corn) kernels that have been treated with an [[alkali]], in a process called [[nixtamalization]] ({{lang|nah|nextamalli}} is the [[Nahuatl]] word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with [[lye]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fussell |first1=Betty Harper |title=The Story of Corn |url=https://archive.org/details/storyofcorn0000fuss |url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/storyofcorn0000fuss/page/19 19] |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |access-date=25 July 2019|isbn=9780826335920 |year=2004 }}</ref>