> Any thoughts on whether wild rice would work as well as sweet potato.  I
> remember wild rice came up a while back and I believe the consensus was
> that it is actually a grass, not a grain, but it cannot to my knowledge be
> eaten raw.


i have read a book about an archeoligical site in Illinoi where many layers
of different ages ( over thousands of years )
accumulated .
before wild rice became a stapple the diet was based on  , meats, nuts  and
vegetables . once harvest of wild rice became important tooth decay,
arthritis ,violence and other familiar neolithic ailments appeared that was
inexistent before
jean-claude