Instant Polenta 9.2 oz (260 g) Since 1950. Pre-cooked maize meal. Cooks in 1 minute. Imported Italian. Cholesterol and fat free. Many Italian foods began with humble beginnings, none more so than polenta. Pulmentum as Polenta was known in Roman times has its meager beginnings as the main meal of northern Italian farmers and legionnaires who ground local grains such as buckwheat and farro and boiled it with water to make porridge. With the return of Colombus from the new world corn was introduced...