June 8, 2023 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We may earn a commission from links on this page. The wasabi most of us get at sushi restaurants, or from the store ...

Wasabi can be grown from both seeds or cuttings from a so-called "mother" plant "Access to the plant material has really been the bottleneck," says Prof Miles. Mr Oates says he first became interested ...

IZU, Japan >> For three decades, Mitsu­yasu Asada has proudly tended the same lush mountainside terraces where his father and grandfather grew wasabi, the horseradish-like plant with a ...

I am standing ankle deep in a stream somewhere in Hampshire. I say “somewhere” advisedly, for short of blindfolding me for the final mile of the journey the owners of the Wasabi Company have done ...

If you knew sushi like I know sushi, you'd smell a raw deal. The fiery green condiment that complements fish and clears your sinuses isn't real wasabi. Most of the wasabi served in this country is ...

Mr Oates says he first became interested in farming wasabi in 1987, but it took him six years simply to get access to viable seeds from which he could grow the plant. For years, he grew the crop in ...

For nearly 30 years, Brian Oates has, in his words, "pig-headedly" devoted himself to a single pursuit: setting up the first commercial wasabi farm in North America. Dozens of others in the US and ...