Polenta Incatenata

I can assure you, from a great deal of personal experience, that one of the most challenging aspects of writing seriously about the food of a place I love is that so much that one reads in print is just plain wrong. This becomes especially grievous when other writers read this misinformation and cite it and quote it repeatedly until most people just assume that it is truth. My approach has always been to go to the source in at least two ways. First, I must find the earliest available refere