If you’re a fan of Japanese cooking, you’ve probably eaten kelp. Although sometimes used as a synonym for seaweed, kelp refers to brown algae from the Laminariaceae family. The kelp most often used in ...

Many Asian cuisine restaurants open their meals with miso soup—a Japanese staple food made from fermented grains and soybeans blended into a stock called dashi and often served with tofu and ...

When it comes to eating seaweed, most Americans likely think about snacking on toasted sheets of nori, the wrapper around their sushi, or maybe a bright and briny salad at a restaurant, but a handful ...