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Default Nori? What is Nori?

Rick Nelson > wrote:
> Dan Logcher wrote:
> > Rick Nelson wrote:
> >> I have seen that Nori is made from a plankton that is strained in
> >> sieves to make a paper-like seaweed-like substance that is used to
> >> wrap "sushi" in.
> >>
> >> I have also seen that Nori is real leaves of seaweed..
> >>
> >> Which is it?

> >
> > Its kelp seaweed ground up and extruded into sheets, then dried.
> >

> Does anyone know about the pool process that makes nori from algae?
>
> you can buy kombu (kelp?) in sheets - is that the same as nori?


From Google http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2310.html

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