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The True Story of Wild Rice, North America's Most Misunderstood Grain
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1361" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.saveur.com/true-story-wild-rice-north-americas-most-misunderstood-grain/" target="_blank"><strong>The True Story of Wild Rice, North America's Most Misunderstood Grain - Saveur</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The Ojibwe people of northern Minnesota are sustained by the real wild rice, which they harvest by hand and dry over fire </strong></p><p></p><p>On a sunny afternoon in the last days of summer, I broke the first rule I had ever been taught about watercraft and stood up in a canoe. Mike Magney and Moon Jacobson of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe had offered to take me out onto Little Elbow Lake and show me the <a href="https://www.saveur.com/tags/rice/" target="_blank">wild-rice harvest</a>—not as a past-tense reenactment, we agreed, but in a present-tense <em>this is how we do it</em> sort of way. So as their canoe shot surely ahead into a thick stand of rice, I heaved my weight onto a 12-foot-long pole in an attempt to keep up. The wind took fierce bites out of the water, working against me. Cotton-batting clouds sped across the blue gel of the sky. The northern Minnesota wild-rice harvest takes place during a two-week sliver of September, and the racing wind heightened our urgency.</p><p></p><p>We were at Sahkahtay, an annual wild-rice camp hosted by members of the Ojibwe tribe, one of the largest groups of Indigenous people north of <a href="https://www.saveur.com/tags/mexico/" target="_blank">Mexico</a>, most of whom live in a long arc that stretches from the upper Midwest to Quebec.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1361, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.saveur.com/true-story-wild-rice-north-americas-most-misunderstood-grain/'][B]The True Story of Wild Rice, North America's Most Misunderstood Grain - Saveur[/B][/URL] [B]The Ojibwe people of northern Minnesota are sustained by the real wild rice, which they harvest by hand and dry over fire [/B] On a sunny afternoon in the last days of summer, I broke the first rule I had ever been taught about watercraft and stood up in a canoe. Mike Magney and Moon Jacobson of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe had offered to take me out onto Little Elbow Lake and show me the [URL='https://www.saveur.com/tags/rice/']wild-rice harvest[/URL]—not as a past-tense reenactment, we agreed, but in a present-tense [I]this is how we do it[/I] sort of way. So as their canoe shot surely ahead into a thick stand of rice, I heaved my weight onto a 12-foot-long pole in an attempt to keep up. The wind took fierce bites out of the water, working against me. Cotton-batting clouds sped across the blue gel of the sky. The northern Minnesota wild-rice harvest takes place during a two-week sliver of September, and the racing wind heightened our urgency. We were at Sahkahtay, an annual wild-rice camp hosted by members of the Ojibwe tribe, one of the largest groups of Indigenous people north of [URL='https://www.saveur.com/tags/mexico/']Mexico[/URL], most of whom live in a long arc that stretches from the upper Midwest to Quebec. [/QUOTE]
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