If you are flavor critic or just someone who enjoys the finer things in life, get ready to have your mind blown. Think back to all of the times you spent serious dough on sushi. You'll be surprised to ...

The green paste you have with your sushi has more than one use other than adding some spice - wasabi is understood to be ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Wasabi and sushi go together ...

To wasabi or not wasabi? While fake wasabi may be everywhere, there's no reason to say no to the faux! From its medicinal ...

Wasabi shouldn’t be the same hue as Shrek. It shouldn’t send a solar flare of spice up your nostrils with each bite. It shouldn’t take a few seconds to transform from a green power into a solid ...

Because no sushi experience would be complete without that dollop of wasabi adding its zing, it may come as a surprise that most sushi lovers have never eaten real wasabi. The pistachio-green paste on ...

I have been eating sushi in the US for years and I was shocked when I couldn't answer, What does wasabi taste like? See the Wasabi that we eat in most sushi restaurants is actually not real wasabi.

An occasional FOODday series highlighting some of the innovators in our state's artisanal food scene. Back in 2003, Markus Mead touched down in Japan for a skiing and surfing vacation. Somewhere along ...

If you eat a lot of sushi and sashimi, you’re probably pretty familiar with wasabi. What is wasabi, though, other than that dollop of green paste on the side of your plate? This Japanese staple ...

Wasabi: you know it well, or so you think. Chances are, however, you've never actually eaten real wasabi, or at least not very often. This is because most of the wasabi served outside of Japan is a ...