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
Pure wild rice is best for this dish, but in a pinch, you can certainly use a mix.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025
Though sometimes called "Canada rice," wild rice is technically a grain from a type of grass, not actual 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
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
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