Masa harina and sugar change a classic cornbread — for the better. (Ben Mims/Los Angeles Times) One afternoon, as I was preparing a Southern meal for friends coming over for dinner, I realized I had ...

Cornbread is to me what rice, potatoes or pasta is to other people: a staple carb of my diet. I grew up on it, so making a batch on a weeknight is no more difficult for me than making a pot of rice ...

On the kitchen table of Osmar Garcia's home in Conway sits a bowl of pork tamales still in their corn husks. "I hope you like them," says Osmar's mom, Tina, of Morrilton. I peel away the corn husk and ...

Frozen kernels, masa harina and hominy form the base of Rick Martínez’s warming atole de grano (savory corn porridge with chicken).

The half dozen or so cornbread recipes highlighted in my column through the years only scratch the cast-iron skillet surface of all the possible variations. In the "Typically Texas Cookbook" (1970, ...

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One afternoon, as I was preparing a Southern meal for friends coming over for dinner, I realized I had forgotten to make the cornbread. But since I keep all the ingredients on hand at all times, I ...

The recipe -- my grandmother's, which I have made countless times in my life -- made with masa harina produced a cornbread that was distinctly different from what I was used to but was equally ...