Cooking Minnesota Wild Rice with Andrew Zimmern || Food/Groups

As the world’s most common food staple, rice is rarely a celebrity on the plate by itself. Which is why for this episode of Food/Groups, we went to a place where it is. The Star of the North: Minnesota. The Land of 10,000 Lakes is also the land of wild rice -- a naturally occurring aquatic grass that’s knocked, finished, and sold by Native Americans whose ancestors have crisscrossed these waters in canoes doing more or less the very same thing for generations. And while legit hand-picked wild rice can get expensive, it’s an edible through-line that connects Minnesota’s pristine past with its modern culinary future. Which, when you think about it, is kinda wild. Check out Andrew Zimmern’s picks for Minneapolis’ best restaurants right here: https://www.thrillist.com/eat/minneap... Watch all of Food/Groups Season 1:    • Food Porn, Drone Montage, GoPro Fail || Fo...   Guests Andrew Zimmern: www.facebook.com/AndrewZimmern Sonny Wadena Derrick Taylor & Andrew Dimery Joe Alton [CORRECTION: The co-founder of Lakes & Legends is Derrick Taylor, not Derek. We regret the error.] Locations FoodWorks Studio Test Kitchen: http://andrewzimmern.com/food-works/ White Earth Nation: http://realwildrice.com/ Lakes & Legends Brewery: http://lakesandlegends.com/ Special Thanks AZCooks: http://andrewzimmern.com/category/az-... Growler Magazine: https://growlermag.com/ Music Horizons by Tom Hillock :00 Reprise @ 9:12 Boarding Gates by Julien Bonneau, Tom Hillock 1:29 Spleenism by Tom Hillock 4:22 Better Things by Bradford Ellis, George Stephenson, Alabama Whitman 6:34 Subscribe to Thrillist    / @thrillist   Check out our website for more food, drink, travel, and entertainment. https://www.thrillist.com Like us on Facebook   / thrillist   Follow us on Instagram   / thrillist   Sign up for our newsletter https://signup.thrillist.com/