wild rice

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The company normalized now-common food items such as wild rice and almond butter.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Grown primarily around the Great Lakes, wild rice has long been a staple in the region, primarily amongst the Indigenous communities in the Midwestern US and Canada.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

All you’ll need are two medium acorn squashes, cooked quinoa or wild rice, fresh or dried cranberries, chopped pecans or walnuts, diced onions, garlic, cinnamon, thyme, olive oil, salt and pepper.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024

The changes also expand access to whole grains like quinoa, wild rice and millet and to foods such as teff and whole wheat naan.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

That space, they hoped, they would fill with the wild rice, the manomin, the good seed that would sustain them through the winter.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich