For, if you reflect a moment, you will see that, while it is easy to choose what virtues we would have our wife possess, it is all but impossible to imagine those faults we would desire in her, which I think most lovers would admit add piquancy to the loved one, that fascinating wayward imperfection which paradoxically makes her perfect.
Hominy is a food which consists of dried maize kernels which have been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.o make hominy, field corn (maize) grain is dried, then treated by soaking and cooking the mature (hard) grain in a dilute solution of lye, slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) or wood ash, a process termed nixtamalization. The soaked maize is washed, and then ground into masa.
(You cook dried hominy exactly like dried beans.) Hominy is also sometimes cracked to make samp, coarsely ground into grits, or very finely ground to make masa flour. In these other forms, hominy is used as a thickener for stew, to make tortillas and tamales, or as a dish all on its own. But right now we're interested in whole hominy!