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Rice Salad Recipe Biography

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To say that wild rice only comes from Minnesota is a false statement.  Wild rice is native to the United States and grows in fresh water and in brackish swamps from New England to Texas to North Dakota. But, its greatest abundance has always been in the State of Minnesota!  In brief, it grows in nearly every state east of the Rocky Mountains and has some 60 local names, with many of them associated with Indian names of the area in which it grows. For example:
Conneticut - "Blackbird Oats"
Louisiana and Wisconsin - "Fool Oats"
Delaware and Pennsylvania - "Indian Oats"
Texas - "Indian Rice"
North Carolina - "Wild Oats"

Although wild rice is one of America's native foods (along with cranberries, pumpkins etc.) , it isn't grown just in the US. Wild Rice is native across the North American continent from Canada to Mexico.  And, today it's now planted and grown worldwide, especially in China and Japan, where it also bears 11 Chinese and Japanese names.

Wild Rice reaches its greatest size, however, in the southern United States, where it may grow as high as twelve feet, with a stalk over 2 inches in diameter. Where it may grow no higher and 3 or 4 feet in the Northern Regions. It loves deep, rich soil.

Wild rice is cooked and used just like brown or white rice and is often combined with them.



Ten Helpful Tips About Wild Rice

1. Wild Rice should be stored in a cool dry place
and in a tightly covered container.
2. How Much to Cook?  1 lbs. = 20-25 average servings.
In other words, it puffs up a lot!
3. One Cup Raw = 3 or 4 Cups Cooked.
4. You can freeze cooked wild rice if you make too much.
5. When blendng with white or brown rice, use
a 50-50 ratio.
6. Just like with white rice, when cooking replace water with chicken broth for a greater flavor.
7. Microwaving isn't recommended when cooking wild rice. (Note: See Cooking Method Below)
8. Lumberjacks used to eat wild rice for breakfast with honey and milk (along the lines of oatmeal).
9. If the wild taste of the rice bothers you, it can be toned down by changing the water while cooking a few times.

10. To reheat wild rice (already cooked) at 2 Tablespoons of butter to an open skilled at heat.

Hint: Why does some wild rice taste a bit different than others?
First of all, wild rice should be a little chewy with a nutty-like flavor when cooked in it's basic form.  But, the main factor in the determning how good your rice will really is not up to you. It all depends on WHEN it was harvested (how mature it is) and how it was handled during the processing.  I, personally, look for a long grain that's rather dark.  I do not like the so-called "microwaveable" wild rice at all.  I cook mine the long way...approximately 45 minutes for 1 cup.
   

History & Folklore of Wild Rice

The Ojibwa and Sioux Indians of Minnesota call it "Mahnomem"  The early French explorers in Minnesota and Canada called it Folles Avoines (wild oats).  Ironically, wild rice isn't really a rice at all.  It is an aquatic cereal grain with a biological technical name of Zizania Aquatica.

Manominikegississ is their August Moon, aka rice-harvesting time.

How is it harvested? Wild Rice harvesting is one process that modern technology still hasn't touched. The rice is still harvested the same way today as it was years before. It is usually done in a canoe or low-sided wooden boat.  One person "poles the boat" through the rice bed while another person in the boat knocks the rice kernels off the stocks and into the boat. How? It's done with two long sticks and with one hand you bend the plants over into the boat and while holding it down, you beat the kernels off into the boat.  Needless to say, this person has to be co-coordinated, and also skilled as to not tip the boat over or your entire harvest is all gone. :(

The rice is then taken to the location where it is processed, namely the hulls are removed, cleaned of debris, dried and ready for bagging and selling.

The last I heard, only a native American in Minnesota is allowed to harvest wild rice; and so it is usually sold by the Chippewa Indians in the Northern Minnesota area. This might have changed because I haven't lived there in a while... and they also now have gambling which they didn't before. So times and rules change.

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