Some glasswort with that salad, sir?

Don’t pass up this rarely heard invitation. Fresh from its muddy bayside haunts, Jersey Shore’s Salicornia bigelovii, or dwarf glasswort, is easily as tasty as more-established salad vegetables. Though technically a succulent herb, even passing as “mud cactus,” it is classified as a “sea vegetable,” sometimes called sea asparagus – though lacking any flavor resemblance. See “Sea Asparagus or Glasswort (Identification)” at youtube.com/watch?v=-pjWZcOgDFA.

Taste-wise, glasswort, a type of saltwort, is supremely salty, living up to its halophyte – “salt loving” – nature.