Any western/European cuisines consists of seaweed or kelp as main ingredients?

Question

or seaweed and kelp only exist in Asian cuisines?

Answer 1

DULSE (seaweed) is eaten in the maritimes in Canada as a snack

Answer 2

Here's a ton of them from the Irish Seaweed Centre!

http://www.irishseaweed.com/recipes.html

and an Irish seaweed dessert

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~darrenb...

Answer 3

It's mostly a Japanese thing, but some French cooking uses it.

Answer 4

Welsh cuisine (i.e. the cuisine of Wales the most westerly country in  the United Kingdom) has got seaweed in it in the form of laverbread, here is a link to a description of it:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverbread

Hope this helps.  I can't say that I know of other European dishes that involve seaweed but there must be some.

Answer 5

Actually, we (in the USA) use seaweed in our food and most people don't even know it, Carrageenan.

Carrageenan is used as a thickener the source of which is seaweed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan

Answer 6

Lava bread.

Answer 7

Some dishes from the northern coastal regions and outer-lying islands of Ireland and Scotland have some dishes containing seaweed.  Mostly dulse, sea lettuce, Irish moss (carrageean) and laver.