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 ...

Our luggage was filled with dried kombu or wakame whenever we returned from visiting ... Though it varies by type of seaweed, the plant has been found to be high in both soluble and insoluble ...

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 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 ...