Irish moss, or seaweed, has a lot of health benefits! The first thing to know about Irish moss is that it isn’t moss at all – it’s seaweed. Also known as carrageen (from the Irish word carraigín ...
THE STORY OF the drink Irish Moss begins, counterintuitively, in Peru. It was the harsh mountain climate of the Andes that gave the world the potato, that most prolific of tubers, which seduced the ...
EAST PROVIDENCE — I was doing some reporting this March along the coast — OK, I was walking aimlessly along the beach in Westerly — when I saw it: a nice hunk of what appeared to be Irish sea moss, an ...