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sd wrote:
> In article >,
> (Alex Rast) wrote:
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>> Grapes. No grapes today are worth even looking at. The invention of
>> seedless grapes is the worst violence ever inflicted upon an innocent
>> fruit. And they've shoved out of even local farmers' markets the
>> really good grapes. Everything you find are large, insipid waterbags.
>
> I've given up on grapes as merely packaged sugar water.
>
>> And
>> Washington is a big grape state - there's no excuse for that here,
>> as there might be for, say, Minnesota. The move to Zante grapes for
>> currants and to Thompson grapes for raisins has had disastrous
>> effects on the qualities of these baking staples.
>
> At the co-op the other day, I found some locally-grown grapes
> similar to Concords, called Hoeft grapes (IIRC). Small, seeded, but
> they actually taste like grapes. Let's see if they ever show up
> again.
>
>> Speaking of Minnesota - wild rice. There *are* sources, but you
>> generally have to mail order. Real *wild* rice is unobtainable not
>> only in supermarkets, but even in specialty stores. Paddy "wild"
>> rice is a completely different thing, so much worse than the real
>> deal that the still-high price you pay for it is a total ripoff. The
>> paddy stuff is invariably tough and tasteless.
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> Fortunately for us Meeneesohtans, real wild rice (harvested by
> Indians) is available at the better grocery stores. You're right,
> though -- there is no comparison between the slender brown wild rice
> harvested by hand and the cheap fat black grains most usually sold
> as "wild rice."
>
> I hope Barb chimes in on this; IIRC she has a source for wild rice
> here in the Twin Cities metro area (?) that's supposed to be the
> real deal and not terribly expensive, and they ship by mail. I know
> she's posted about it before, but I can't find the note in my files.
>
> sd
She sent me some once - delicious! Gosh I wish I could remember the name of
it, Steve. I can picture the label in my mind but can't make out the words
Jill
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