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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 12, 2022 14:59:44 GMT
This is a really interesting article. The comments afterward are good, too, as some spotlight kelp farming in other parts of the US and also experimental medical uses for kelp.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 12, 2022 15:58:38 GMT
Good article. Thanks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 12, 2022 16:27:24 GMT
I've eaten kelp for at least 30 years even though it is not exactly a major part of my diet.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 12, 2022 18:20:17 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 13, 2022 4:38:50 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jun 13, 2022 8:02:22 GMT
Had to look up both kelp and kale. Makes it easier to follow 🤣
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2022 12:44:21 GMT
While not very common inland, people along the coast eat quite a bit of salicornia. We see it in Paris during the holiday season when people want "different." It grows in mangroves, salt marshes and on beaches.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 13, 2022 16:05:49 GMT
Um ~ thanks, Patrick, I think. I had heard of laverbread and assumed it was bread with seaweed in it. But it's so much weirder than that! Even tripe doesn't boil for six hours. It was the detail about rolling it in oatmeal that really did me in.
The Cornish seemed to have skipped over the desperation/poverty aspect of eating seaweed and made right for a haute cuisine aspect. I see that their website & recipe development was partly funded by a govt. grant, echoing the grants the OP & others got to develop seaweed harvesting.
I've picked & tried salicornia or its cousins on various beaches. It has a nice snappy texture and a mild, somewhat salty taste.
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Post by lugg on Jun 14, 2022 20:42:34 GMT
Now I wondering if salicornia is the same as samphire , which I love ? Off to google .
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Post by lugg on Jun 14, 2022 20:48:18 GMT
This is a really interesting article. It sure is - I guess we have a lot to learn from the Japanese who have long included seaweeds in their diet but also historically in the UK it was an important part of the diet of those who lived close to the shore. Possibly true for other countries ?
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Post by bjd on Jun 15, 2022 6:09:19 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2022 23:53:20 GMT
I've never heard of a traditional use of seaweed as food (or anything else) in this country, nor really, in the US although surely back in the old days it was eaten on the coasts. I mostly know it from buying it in health food stores, back when I lived in the US, so it was a "special" food. re: salicornia / samphire ~ I too was curious & found out it is the same & has a bunch of names. This perky little blog post makes one wonder why it's not more popular: umamigirl.com/how-to-cook-samphire-sea-beans-saltwort-glasswort-recipe/#:~:text=Sea%20beans%20(also%20known%20by,shellfish%2C%20and%20also%20with%20eggs. It certainly would seem easier to make seaweed a common foodstuff than some of the other things that are proposed as the answer to world hunger. If not a food, at least a supplement of some kind.
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