Tammy Swanson can't figure out Grandma's wild rice. "I'd like to know what they do with it. It's nice and buttery," she said. Let's back up a bit. Swanson is a fan of wild rice, the grain that grows ...

Excerpted from “PNW Veg” by Kim O’Donnel. Makes about 4 servings. Although it eats like a grain, wild rice is actually the seed of an ancient aquatic grass that is native to the Great Lakes region and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various types of rice in glass jars spilling onto a counter - LMPark Photos/Shutterstock It never ceases to amaze me how you can ...

November is Native American Heritage Month, so I decided to learn more about Native American food. To get inspired, I explored the recipes in “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” by Sean Sherman and ...

Fun fact: Wild rice isn't exactly rice. Instead it's a distant relative, hailing from the Zizania genus, to most of the varities we eat today, which belong to the Oryza sativa family. It is harvested ...

Natalie Yarbrough of Minnetonka, has won the Grand Prize in the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council’s “Get Wild with Wild Rice” recipe contest with her Wild Banana Blueberry Pecan Pancakes, the ...

A column last month about our family’s annual summer fishing vacations to far north Orr, Minnesota, captured reader interest and netted some questions too. As many readers pointed out, I failed to ...

Manoomin, a crop vital to the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Midwest, has been threatened in recent years. But careful stewardship is helping to bring it back. By Kevin Noble Maillard Reporting from ...