On 2014-12-16 19:29:44 +0000, sf said:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:40:26 -0600, Moe DeLoughan >
> wrote:
>
>> Us native Minnesotans know all
>> about it - and, as Oregonian Haruspex mentioned, the black paddy-grown
>> cultivated 'wild' rice is garbage. The genuine hand-harvested wild
>> rice is far superior and not that much more expensive.
>
> I need to find some of that stuff and see if I change my mind, because
> I'm not fond of wild rice - it's too expensive to buy and then not
> like. I see hand parched is more expensive than regular parched.
> Does the method matter?

The real stuff goes for about $5 a pound. We usually buy ten pounds of
it a year or so, which isn't a terribly huge investment. I figure you
get about 3 cups of cooked rice from each cup of dry, so it ends up
being plenty and we eat it with abandon yet always seem to have a bit
left over when we go up to the cabin in the late summer, which is when
we buy more.

Yes, it's true - everybody in or even from Minesota has a cabin.