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

With "Top Chef" heading to Canada this season, it's a perfect time to highlight one of the country's most distinctive staples: wild rice.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

The mine has already encountered opposition from environmental groups and tribes worried about impacts on water and other resources such as wild rice.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

Now it was time to harvest the wild rice that grew across from the island in the great sloughs of Kakagon, where Mama’s brother and one of her sisters lived.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich