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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 17, 2019 13:24:46 GMT
www.saveur.com/true-story-wild-rice-north-americas-most-misunderstood-grain/On a sunny afternoon in the last days of summer, I broke the first rule I had ever been taught about watercraft and stood up in a canoe. Mike Magney and Moon Jacobson of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe had offered to take me out onto Little Elbow Lake and show me the wild-rice harvest—not as a past-tense reenactment, we agreed, but in a present-tense this is how we do it sort of way. So as their canoe shot surely ahead into a thick stand of rice, I heaved my weight onto a 12-foot-long pole in an attempt to keep up. The wind took fierce bites out of the water, working against me. Cotton-batting clouds sped across the blue gel of the sky. The northern Minnesota wild-rice harvest takes place during a two-week sliver of September, and the racing wind heightened our urgency.
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Post by divtal on Aug 18, 2019 3:12:13 GMT
I enjoyed that article. I don't recall reading anything by Amy Thielen, before. This sent me to scramble around in the back of a cupboard, where I knew that I had a box of Minnesota-grown wild rice. Found it! I can't recall exactly when I bought it, but the "best by," date is 2021, so I have time. I've never prepared wild rice, as a dish on it's own. I've bought mixes of white/wild, and have enjoyed them. What I bought is a small box of "all natural Minnesota wild rice (paddy grown.) There is a recipe on the back of the box for "creamy wild rice soup." I'll have to give it a try.
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