jmcquown wrote:
> sd wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> (Alex Rast) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>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
>
>
You all don't have to be a Native American to harvest wild rice in
Minnesota. And if you are a purist insist on "hand parched" instead of
"machine parched".
del
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