Nettie's

Happy to announce that my latest cookbook, The Fair Trade Ingredient Cookbook, is out now! Available where books are sold. You can purchase directly from my publisher Whitecap Books here. I wanted to write this cookbook because it is important to understand what Fair Trade is about and how one can live a “Fair Trade […]

Long before the development of agriculture, coastal peoples harvested a variety of nutritious vegetables from the sea. Though sea vegetables are used in many countries, their use in Japan has been the most popular. The seaweed industry there dates back to the 14th century. The actual farming of sea vegetables began in the 1700’s in […]