The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.

Seaweed is available dried and sold in packets of different ... The seaweed in this soup is known as wakame in Japan and miyeok in Korea. It makes a vitamin-rich broth that is traditionally ...

I discovered seaweed by accident at a local Japanese market five years ago. What started as a curious purchase turned into a weekly staple in my kitchen – and now I can’t imagine my meals without ...

Wakame — which is commonly included in miso soup, and is the main ingredient in Japanese seaweed salad — is ... Also sold ...

Unless gathered absolutely fresh, seaweed tends to be sold dried. It is available fresh from May to June. Carrageen, or Irish moss, is used as a vegetarian gelling agent in some processed foods.

Seaweed farmers in the wildfire-stricken city of Ofunato in northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture have begun harvesting cultivated wakame for the first time this season. Offloading of the local ...

Salted cucumbers, rehydrated wakame seaweed, and plump shrimp are tossed with a refreshing rice vinegar, mirin, and sesame oil dressing. Serve this cucumber salad as a first course or side dish ...