Wakame salad has a slightly oceanic flavor, but it's not overpowering. It has a smooth texture and is available both frozen ...

The most lively and robust elders in my life” eat this food, says Japanese nutritionist and longevity expert. It “makes me ...

Miso soup is often loaded with fried tofu, chopped green onions, mushrooms, or wakame seaweed. But building a memorable ...

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.

Pastes made from Japanese seaweed were once used to heal burns ... used to make dashi (soup stock). Wakame is another kind of sea kelp similar to kombu, but much more tender and succulent. It grows ...

In Japan Wakame seaweed has been cultivated for centuries by sea farmers for human food - but offerings of it were made to the spirits of ancestors and even taxes were paid in seaweed. Nowadays it ...

Wakame seaweed is well-loved in Japan, but it is turning up in more parts of the world as an invasive species. In Argentina, there is a movement not to view it as a sea "weed," but as a sea ...