Visitors to this web site can compare the qualities of brown and white rice. American wild rice is not really a true rice, but is becoming popular in North America. It is being grown in Canada also.
Rice is used in beer .
The story of sake makes interesting reading, beginning in the third century when it was made by chewing rice, chestnuts and millet and spitting them into a tub to ferment. You can make your own by a more genteel sake recipe . Rice Paper . It is used for special serviettes , cigarette papers, etc. Edible, it is also used in cooking.