SC - Odd grains (was wheat vs. spelt)

[Wade Hutchison]

I just had a woman at a (medieval) conference that I was attending
over the weekend tell me about this stuff - it is apparently a
Chinese rice that cooks up purple!  The marketing spin has
something to do with the "fact" that this rice is forbidden
because it was reserved for the Emperor only.  She said I
should find some, and that it was very good.  I'll have
to check my local nat. food store.
	-----wade/Gille

At 11:45 AM 4/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Speaking of "odd" grains <G>, I saw something interesting in the natural 
>foods store the other day...
>
>Sitting on the shelf next to the rices, there was a small cellophane packet 
>of *black* rice.  It was labelled "The Forbidden Rice" and vaguely implied 
>that in ancient times only the pharaohs were allowed it, blah blah blah...
>
>Has anybody else heard of this?  Is this an actual Old World grain product, 
>or is it a really fancy packaging idea?  It didn't look like wild rice; it 
>*really* looked like a good long-grain rice, like a basmati, but it was 
>coal-black.
>

	
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