Wild Rice At Heart of Agricultural Controversy
I’m enjoying a long-overdue family vacation in northern Minnesota, home to real wild rice. Pssst…here’s a secret: most “wild rice” you find in your local grocery store is not, in fact, wild rice. Taste the real stuff, and you’ll know that a certain orange-bagged “rice” is nothing like the nutty goodness of wild rice. To be technical, wild rice isn’t really rice at all. It’s a water-grass seed, and it has been around for thousands of years, growing mainly west and north of the Great Lakes.
