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Peter A

In article >,
says...
> > Be aware that there are 2 kinds of wild rice. The cultivated kind is
> > more common and less expensive. The grains are really dark, almost
> > black, as a result of the processing. Then there's the really wild kind,
> > harvested by hand, and usually sold by Indian tribes. Processed
> > differently, the grains are brown. It is vastly superior, although a lot
> > more expensive (perhaps 10-11 bucks a pound).
> >
>
> And sometimes not cleaned porperly...hence the muddy taste and the required
> changing of the water during cooking.
>
>

I don't believe that for a second. Hand-harvested rice is a lot less
likely to be contaminated than the machine-harvested cultivated rice. I
have bought it from several different suppliers and have never had even
the slightest problem with any dirt or other foreign material.

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Peter Aitken