Om nom nom.
When I heard rumors of a type of sea vegetable that, when cooked, tasted like bacon, I wanted in.But by the time I reached out to the researchers growing it, they'd already been inundated with requests and didn't have samples to go around. As it turned out, this seaweed-bacon was already the trendiest health food around, and it hadn't even reached stores yet.
But last week I took a trip to the original source of the stuff - a fishing village in Ireland - and got a chance to taste it. Here's how it went.
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