Tag: Chef Brid Torrades

  • The story of seaweed

    The story of seaweed

    Ireland has a rich heritage of harvesting and eating all sorts of “sea vegetables”, as leaders in the recent culinary revival of seaweeds prefer to call them. Carrageen was a traditional base for wobbly, jelly-style puddings. Sleabhac (nori) was known as a powerful folk tonic, an aphrodisiac and a treatment for gout, and pickled sleabhac […]