Ironically, what sailors feared back then was a golden seaweed forest, brimming with life, on the surface waters of the North Atlantic. The Sargasso Sea is a floating ecosystem composed of two ...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The first time I made dashi, that quintessential "golden stock” of Japanese ... gnarly sheets of kombu (dried kelp seaweed) and a hard slab of dried bonito (skipjack ...