Nori

Nori

What it is

When Japan’s nori harvests mysteriously collapsed after the war, it was a British scientist, Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, whose research on seaweed life cycles saved the crop — she never visited Japan, yet fishermen there still honour her each April as the “Mother of the Sea”.

In the kitchen

Wave a sheet over a flame until it turns emerald and crisps. Crumbled into butter or over eggs, it adds the sea without the fish.

Goes with

Rice Sesame Egg Butter Salmon Tuna

Also used with

Bamboo salt Tiger pufferfish (torafugu) Gyokuro Kanpyō Kuchiko (dried sea cucumber ovaries) Masago

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