h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I had an extended stay in northern Italy a few years back and I'm afraid I couldn't get Polenta - looked (and tasted like) a bar of soap on my plate as far as I was concerned. Plenty of nice good stuff in their diet there but this one wasn't for me

*remembers reading something recently about polenta*

*checks her vegetarian cook book*

*attempt to translate from Swedish*

'Polenta is one of the many dishes that, if handed wrongly, can discourage people for life.
If the cooking time is too short, or if it's burnt, or becomes sticky, or not enough spices are used, it will easily lead to an unpleasant variety of fried porridge. Polenta demands a bit of wariness.'