Polenta 📍 Northern Italy 🇮🇹 ⭐ 3.7 Video: Ristorante Veneza Polenta is an ancient dish of Northern Italian origin, most commonly made from coarse corn flour cooked in water. Although polenta today is characterized by its intense yellow color, before the arrival of corn in Europe in the 16th century, it was made with spelt, rye, and buckwheat, which gave it a much darker color. | TasteAtlas