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September 2 - 9, 1999

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Wasabi peas

Pea break

by Michelle Chihara

NOSHING & SIPPING
When hankering for snack foods, Americans rarely reach for dried peas. Especially not dried peas covered in hot green Japanese mustard.

Our loss. Wasabi peas -- also packaged as "roasted hot green peas," and sometimes labeled with the wonderfully translated-from-the-Japanese tag line "A happy present from the earth" -- are dried green peas coated with wasabi, the fiery Japanese condiment. Roasted into salty snacks, the peas turn out spicy and crunchy, like little sinus-clearing nuts. After one handful, it becomes very difficult to resist the next. Happy, indeed.

Wasabi peas are available at most stores that sell Japanese snack foods. We got ours at the Japonaise Bakery and Café, 1020 Beacon Street, in Brookline.


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