wild rice

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As a Minnesota resident, I have to agree with . The wild rice from

Minnesota and Wisconsin is the best I have ever had. I use it a lot in soups

and stews in the winter time and of course with pheasant.

Abbott

Feng Shui Practitioner

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> This is an interesting link about wild rice. I didn't realize it was such a

super-food.

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>> http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch311.html

Thank you so much for posting that link!

After reading the article there I did a little more research and learned that

much of the " wild " rice sold these days is not actually wild at all. Truly wild

rice is a grass that grows naturally in lakes. But most all of the wild rice

sold commercially are hybrid varieties cultivated in rice paddies.

Here's a link to a forum with a number of posts explaining more about this:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/462005

Evidently there's a big difference between cultivated and truly wild wild rice,

the latter of which was gathered by hand by Native Americans and was a staple

food for them, particularly during the winter months when foods from foraging

and hunting were few and far between.

Here's another link to a site where you can by the real deal truly wild rice

that's harvested in the traditional manner:

http://www.savewildrice.org/

Elan