Green Options » Ojibwe http://greenoptions.com/tag/ojibwe Posts tagged 'Ojibwe' Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Wild Rice At Heart of Agricultural Controversy http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/07/30/wild-rice-at-heart-of-agricultural-controversy/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/07/30/wild-rice-at-heart-of-agricultural-controversy/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:15:37 +0000 Kelli Best-Oliver http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/07/30/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.

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