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 ...