Hominy

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Hominy () is a Mesoamerican food produced from dried maize (corn) kernels treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization (nextamalli is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is hominy made with lye. The word "hominy" comes from the Powhatan -homen, literally, "that treated (in the way specified)."