Wild rice is a freshwater grass that has been gaining popularity in recent years—and for good reason. It's often assumed wild rice is a member of the rice family because of its name and shape ...

If you've ever had wild rice, you know just how much tastier it can make any dish. Ree Drummond even features it on her Thanksgiving menu! It takes center stage in her Broccoli Wild Rice Casserole ...

Wild rice truly is a wild, natural food. While several varieties exist, the most commonly available are Zizania palustris, or Northern wild rice, and Zizania aquatica, or wild rice. While it is ...

These days the oxymoronic farmed wild rice is primarily grown in Minnesota and California, where they pump out the black wild rice you buy at the specialty store. If you want to spring for the real ...

Wild rice is available in many colours, and the flavours range from sweet to smokey. It is often sold combined with ordinary rice. Wash the rice and soak before use. It will take about 45 minutes ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Manoomin, meaning "the good berry," is a type of wild rice that has been harvested by the Ojibwe people in the Great Lakes region of North America for centuries.

Purplish-black 'wild rice' is not rice, but an aquatic grass from North America. Difficulty in harvesting it makes it expensive, but the grain's colour, elegant shape and subtly nutty flavour make ...

It's real easy to pull your manoomin when it's not ... dry storage for years. - [Rita] Processing wild rice by hand is a labor of love, echoing centuries of knowledge and care passed down through ...

Oryza sativa is the cultivated form of wild rice, and it has been part of Asian culinary culture for the last 7,000 to 9,000 years. Historical evidence shows that cultivated rice first appeared in ...

From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior editor Leah Lemm walks with her son Marvin from his school bus stop on Jan. 2. So, she set out with a ...