DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

AQUACULTURISTS IN OREGON are developing a specialty food industry centered on a marine alga that’s been called “the most productive protein source on Earth,” “the superfood of the future,” and—intriguing to many people—“bacon of the sea.” Dulse (rhymes with “pulse”) is a seaweed found in the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

- HICKS WOGAN

A SIDE OF CRISP SEAWEED

THIS ‘BACON OF THE SEA’ DELIVERS PLENTIFUL PROTEIN WITH A SPLASH (INSTEAD OF AN OINK).