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Seaweeds, by Ole G. Mouritsen - review

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

Seaweeds, Edible, Available & Sustainable Ole G. Mouritsen

University of Chicago Press, pp.287, £24.50

On 14 April each year, nori fishermen gather on a hillside overlooking Ariake Bay on Kyushu in southern Japan to pay homage to ‘the Mother of the Sea’. There is a shrine and an altar for votive offerings but this is not a religious rite. The mother in question is Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, a Lancashire- born algae researcher who, in 1949, discovered the life-cycle of porphyra umbilicalis

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