Don’t Forget to Eat Your Sea Vegetables
A friendly introduction to adding Japanese sea vegetables into your diet
I sometimes forget that not a lot of people were raised like me, eating sea vegetables. To some, the idea of using seaweed in food can seem intimidating, foreign, and frankly sometimes unappealing.
I first made this realization when I was in second grade, attending a public school in New York. Everyone around me began pulling out their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chicken nuggets, while I brought out my double-decker bento box. It wasn’t long until one of the girls sitting next to me scrunched her nose at my lunch — what is that?
She was referring to my shiso-wakame rice ball wrapped in nori.
Needless to say, I later went home that day and begged my mom for Lunchables and normal kid lunches.
Sea vegetables transformed my health
But what was my discomfort back then has now become one of my greatest strengths, as I now understand the infinite benefits that come with regularly eating vegetables. More important than any skill that I could write on a resume, loving sea vegetables and being able to cook with such a wide variety has shaped my health for the better, and is a quality about myself I would…
