Kelp forest off Cape Town provides inspiration for local chef

Kelp is essential to oceans, providing a habitat for numerous marine life and keeping the ocean clean by trapping carbon. It’s also long been a part of Asian cuisine, but now a chef in Cape Town is turning seaweed into a gastronomic experience.

Here in the waters off Cape Town’s southern penninsula, chef Phil Mansergh is stocking up supplies. But he hasn’t come for fish – he’s here for the vast kelp forest that lies beneath the…