{"id":10063,"date":"2014-07-04T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2014-09-27T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:11:54","slug":"seaweed-new-kind-edible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/seaweed-new-kind-edible\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed \u2013 a new kind of edible or a centuries old secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Once I\u2019d picked myself up off the floor having opened the invitation and itinerary to attend the SoSligo Food and Cultural Festival in June<\/a>, the trip we were being taken on that really jumped out of the page was seaweed foraging with Prannie Rhatigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was born and reared within earshot of the sea and now living on top of a hill, almost an hour\u2019s drive away from the coast, the deep yearning for sea air never goes away. I moved away from the seaside as a young child and my teenage years were spent close by to the salty marshes of Maldon, in North Essex, famed for its Sea Salt. I have no recollection of seaweed. Wistful memories tend to be of swimming every day with friends in the creeks, laying in bed listening to the bells ringing on stormy nights as they swayed violently on the tips of masts on yachts moored close by. Depending upon the wind direction, the sound of hammers and drills could often be heard echoing around the village as men worked in the boatyard on barnacle encrusted barges that sat resting, out-of-place high in the air on cradles, paint peeling from their hulls. The sounds were mirrored by the screech of the seagulls as they fought for morsels of food thrown from small fishing boats that lazily bobbed by.<\/p>\n But seaweed? I\u2019m guessing there must have been some lying around the muddy marshes but it certainly wasn\u2019t something we ate.<\/p>\n It came as a bit of surprise last year when I attended a fascinating talk about seaweed by Sally McKenna, author of Edible Greens<\/a>,\u00a0followed by a Japanese cookery demonstration by Fiona Uyema<\/a>, that not only is seaweed edible, those in the know have eaten it for centuries and it\u2019s packed full of properties that are tremendously good for us.<\/p>\nSea or Mountain Woman?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Edible Seaweed<\/strong><\/h2>\n