Wasabi

Earlier this week, I wrote about The Breakaway Cook

Although real wasabi is becoming more available, most sushi restaurants outside of Japan still serve up a paste made of horseradish, mustard, and green food coloring and call it wasabi. The truth is that real wasabi is not a type of horseradish. Rather it comes from a plant from a different genus entirely. While wasabi is part of the same family of plants as horseradish, that family (Brassicaceae) also includes mustard, broccoli, and cabbage.