The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.

As edible seaweed, wakame is perfect for preparing in salad form. Wakame can be used in salads and hot dishes and is an ingredient in miso soup, which, as many know, is one of the main dishes in ...