Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
If you've ever eaten at a sushi restaurant, then chances are you probably had an undesirable experience with a staple to the cuisine: wasabi.
This fiery, mustard-like condiment comes from a plant which grows along the beds of streams in mountain river valleys in Japan. Turns out though, it's not just grown in Japan.
At $160 a kilogram, wasabi is one of the most lucrative crops in the world, as the BBC's Kim Gittleson discovered in Vancouver. That's why farmers in Canada are hoping for a big payday from wasabi too.
Read the full story: Wasabi: Why invest in 'the hardest plant to grow'?