Wild rice is a wonderful food for upset stomach, but not just because itâs a type of rice. Wild rice is actually a grain-free aquatic grass that looks like and even cooks like rice, but is much more nutritious. It actually alkalizes the body unlike other rice varieties and can settle the stomach quickly.
This article is about the mid-19th century novel. For other uses, see Uncle Tom's Cabin (disambiguation). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War, according to Will Kaufman.
It was then, she wrote later, that she discovered at first hand what a slave mother might feel when her child was taken away from her; she began to write Uncle Tomâs Cabin in 1851 after she, her husband and six surviving children had moved north to Maine.