Alabama Grist Mill

56: How eating grits once caused a plague in Alabama


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Grits are a southern staple. In this episode we cover the Ten Commandments of Grits, and how eating a diet of meat, molasses, grits and cornbread caused an epidemic of "Red Dath" in the early 1900s. The discovery and cure of the disease was led by Alabamians.

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