If you are flavor critic or just someone who enjoys the finer things in life, get ready to have your mind blown. Think back to all of the times you spent serious dough on sushi. You'll be surprised to ...

To wasabi or not wasabi? While fake wasabi may be everywhere, there's no reason to say no to the faux! From its medicinal ...

Before you casually tip your sushi-loaded chopsticks into the neatly coiffed little dollop of wasabi on your expensive and exotic platter, know that your favourite taste-bud tingling condiment — an ...

The green paste you have with your sushi has more than one use other than adding some spice - wasabi is understood to be ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Wasabi and sushi go together ...

Do we really know what we’re eating anymore? Is it pork and beef in the hot dogs you’re grilling this summer or something belonging to a primate? What about your morning cup of coffee that you need in ...

Wasabi shouldn’t be the same hue as Shrek. It shouldn’t send a solar flare of spice up your nostrils with each bite. It shouldn’t take a few seconds to transform from a green power into a solid ...

Because no sushi experience would be complete without that dollop of wasabi adding its zing, it may come as a surprise that most sushi lovers have never eaten real wasabi. The pistachio-green paste on ...

Wasabi: you know it well, or so you think. Chances are, however, you've never actually eaten real wasabi, or at least not very often. This is because most of the wasabi served outside of Japan is a ...

That green blob served alongside your California roll? That probably isn’t real wasabi. Ninety percent of the wasabi you buy in a restaurant or in the grocery store is actually horseradish that’s been ...