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Tara No Me ( タラの芽), the King of Wild Vegetables, Growing Right Under My Nose All these Years!
5 April, 2021
By Avi Landau
Once surely an essential part of the struggle for survival and later important for supplementing meager diets, the gathering of, preparation, and especially the EATING of SANSAI (山菜), wild vegetables, is still a popular way for the Japanese to enjoy a sense of the season, whichever one it may be! In fact, the demand for seasonal SANSAI has led to many of them being cultivated by farmers, and subsequently their easy availability at supermarkets ( these are still referred to as wild veggies, however!)