The premier pick one night was the roast duck with its crisp skin, succulent meat, sweet-sour pear sauce and mound of nutty wild rice.

They also import a nutty pink rice grown organically in the Himalayan foothills of Bhutan.

At dinner it is served with a molded pyramid of deliciously nutty brown rice blended with yellow raisins, hazelnuts and cinnamon.

They come with a mixture of wonderfully nutty wild rice and corn.

What it lacked was the essential short-grained nutty rice.

The nutty rice goes well with the juicy ripe fruit.

The entree was roast venison with moist, nutty wild rice, soothing sweet potato puree and crisp green beans.

Others might try rice pudding made with nutty black rice.

The nutty rice, colored with squid ink, is just right, having absorbed the other flavors perfectly.

A superbly nutty and firm-textured wild rice - not cultivated but wild.