Cornmeal Pudding

Gomi

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Darra Goldstein

Published 1999

  • About

Although gomi was originally made with millet, these days it is prepared with cornmeal. Corn proved a more reliable crop than the indigenous millet the Georgians had grown for centuries. It also proved more palatable, if we are to believe the report of Sir John Chardin. Here is what he has to say about gomi:

Their usual Grain is Gom; which is a sort of Grain as small as Coriander Seed, and very much resembles Millet. ... It is i