The Seaweed Cookbook

Surfers, boaties and nature conservationists Caro and Tim run The Cornish Seaweed Company… which counts the likes of Nathan Outlaw and Rick Stein among its fans. They evangelise this healthy, sustainable and (yes) delicious food source in this handsome book. Full of tempting recipe photos and pictures of the pair clambering over bladderwrack-strewn rocks and diving for kelp, it talks a lot about seaweed cultivation and foraging, and gives detailed info on a dozen of the most important types. Recipes run through starters (deep-fried kelp-wrapped brie with raspberry and chilli jam) and mains (sea spaghetti ‘tagliatelle’ with crab) to, rather unexpectedly, puds (blackberry, apple and dulse crumble); there are even seaweed cocktails (kelp martini anyone?). This is an accessible book that will challenge your current eating habits. Matt Bielby, Crumbs Devon magazine, 2018

Caroline Warwick-Evans and Tim Van Berkel are co-owners of The Cornish Seaweed Company, an exciting small new company, winning awards for their sustainable business and producing an ever-increasing range of seaweed products sold around the world. They have been featured on the BBC Back to the Land, and Jamie’s Friday Night Feasts, and in other print and broadcast media.