Wild Rice Cooking: History, Natural History, Harvesting, and Lore

by Susan Carol Hauser

Book Overview

A complete guide to harvesting and cooking wild rice--with eighty recipes and a fascinating history of the plant. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159228535X
• ISBN13: 9781592285358
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book! Interesting and Useful.

This is a fascinating, all encompassing read about black rice in our country (or, is it a grain?). The author takes you along as she personally harvests a wild crop near her home in the way that our Native Americans always have, then describes the stages of processing, and later reveals how its modern cultivation came about. Comparisons among the various species are explained, and photos advise what an undercooked versus overcooked product looks like. Incorporated throughout the book's myriad other facts are numerous recipes for everything from breakfasts to dinners to snacks (did you know you can pop wild rice?). I found this a very fun read and will never again leave my pantry bare of the "manoomin" that I've loved for years, but which I'll now appreciate even more.