aminos, nutritional yeast, and seasonings of choice, and then dehydrate until crisp. Pour boiling water over 1 teaspoon fresh or sun-dried Fucus for a tasty tea; add mint, nettles, lemon, or other flavorings as desired. Use fresh or dry bladderwrack in soup starter or fish broth. Sauté bladderwrack with fresh onions and ginger, a dash of sweet and sour sauce, sesame seeds, and goosetongue. Kodiak Alutiiq call bladderwrack caritet and eat it raw, dipped in oil or with sea urchin eggs.
HEALTH USE: If you get burned while cooking on your beach campfire, break open a Fucus bladder for its soothing aloe-like gel. Soak your tired feet in a bladderwrack footbath. Bladderwrack contains the alphabet of vitamins (A to E, as well as K), and a complex array of minerals and trace elements. Clinical studies at McGill University confirm that sodium alginate in Fucus and other brown algae binds with radioactive strontium 90 in the intestines, thus causing it (as well as heavy metals) to be eliminated from the body. Another clinical trial notes the ability of Fucus to lower cholesterol levels and to reduce risk of estrogen-related cancers.
OTHER: Burn dry bladderwrack with alder to smoke salmon. Nourish your beds of potatoes and cabbage with potash-rich Fucus. In Ireland in the 1900s, there were some 300 seaweed bathhouses popular for relieving stress and tired muscles; indulge in the seaweed spa in your very own home. Finish off with a bladderwrack hair rinse.
CAUTION: Due to the mucilage in bladderwrack tips, bladderwrack can have a laxative effect. Harvest only in uncontaminated waters. Consult your doctor concerning use if you have any type of thyroid imbalance or are taking any blood-thinner medication.
BEACH GREENS
Honckenya peploides, aka Arenaria peploides Pink family (Carophyllaceae)
Beach greens are a stunning example of the power of regeneration of plants. From the brown, seemingly winter-killed trailing stems emerge bright green shoots packed with vitamins A and C. The trailing stems grow to 2 feet long, with smooth, fleshy, sharply pointed leaves in opposite arrangement. The small greenish-white flowers are followed by globular seed capsules.
DERIVATION OF NAME: Honckenya honors 18th-century German botanist Gerhard Honckeny; peploides, from the Greek word for a cloak, describes the way the leaves wrap the stems and nearly hide the flowers.
OTHER NAMES: scurvygrass, sea purslane.
RANGE: Sandy shores from Southeast Alaska to the Arctic.
HARVESTING DIRECTIONS: Young leaves and shoots are prime before flowers appear; wash well to remove the grit and sand that may be trapped by the cloak-like leaves.
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