On a starry evening in Mendocino, my husband and I are at Ravens, an upscale organic vegetarian restaurant, tasting one of the chef's signature dishes, a seaweed strudel stuffed with sea palm and ...

A while back, a craze hit my kids' school. It seemed as though everyone in the lunchroom was bringing in those little green packs of seaweed from Trader Joe's — roasted, salted nori, sometimes ...

Buoyed by the global popularity of sushi, dark green sheets of nori 海苔, are no longer an uncommon sight outside of Japan. However, there is far more to nori than a simple sushi wrapper. Founded in ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--Germinating nori seaweed has begun here to prepare the local specialty for harvesting this winter. “Hotter water due to the lingering summer heat will likely make nori ...

For centuries, the shallows of Tokyo Bay were covered in a chequerboard pattern of nori seaweed plantations. Using little more than nets and bamboo sticks, mari ...

The tasty Japanese seaweed nori is ubiquitous today, but that wasn’t always true. Nori was once called “lucky grass” because every year’s harvest was entirely dependent on luck. Then, during World War ...