Laverbread: A Centuries Old Tradition from Wales

Laverbread is as ingrained on the collective Welsh gastronomical palate as is roast lamb and the two are often served together. Laverbread, surprisingly, is not a bread at all but a cooked puree of a local seaweed called laver. Laver (porphyra umbilicalis) has been harvested on coastal rocks on the western shores of Wales and on the English Devon coast for centuries. As with many rustic foods, laver was free for the harvesting and therefore an important component of the working class diet. 
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