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By T. SUSAN CHANG | NPR -
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A while back, a craze hit my kids’ school. It seemed as though everyone in the lunchroom was bringing in those little green packs of seaweed from Trader Joe’s — roasted, salted nori, sometimes flavored with wasabi. (Most of these kids like yogurt and olives, too.) Granted, our town has an idiosyncratic population, and many of the parents are health-minded. It was the kids, though, who couldn’t get enough of them.
When I was pregnant, for a while I wouldn’t eat anything but cucumber rolls, and it wasn’t about the cucumber. What I really wanted was the mineral, iodized flavor of the seaweed they were wrapped in …
