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The Folklore. Wild rice looks like rice and is eaten like rice, but this crunchy, chewy whole grain is actually an aquatic grass that grows wild in lakes and rivers mainly in North America. Considered an ancient grain, wild rice, native to the upper Great Lakes in the U.S. and Canada, dates as far back […]