polenta
Polenta is a dish of north Italy. People eat here with the typical fish of the lake, “missoltino”, with meat or cheese. If you cook too much polenta, you can eat it the day after with eggs or milk. Once in Lecco, many and many years ago, there were  “I pulentatt”, polenta sellers. We can think that they were like fast-food; in fact customers bought by the “pulentatt” polenta and fried fish and they could immediately eat it sitting there, under a marquee or go home. It's easy to find cooked polenta in rotisseries and gastronomies.

People, years ago, before the Polenta, used to prepare and eat, every day, dishes with broth. They are very good for a healthy alimentation. The only “little problem” is that it takes a long time to cook them. Now people use the pressure cooker that takes half time. Once, these dishes was prepared with water, a bit of condiment, like lard, and just one vegetable because people were not rich enough to have many kind of vegetables. Now it's a normal to prepare soups with a lot of vegetables and jointing rice or “pasta”.