Carola Puracchio runs a restaurant in Camarones, a small coastal town in the Patagonian province of Chubut. She uses wakame, an exotic species that is harmful to the Argentine marine ecosystem, but nutritionally rich.
Wakame is native to China, Korea, Japan and Russia. It arrived in Patagonia with ships in the 90s and began to colonize its coasts. The process of setting up a restaurant, which she calls a “gastronomic house,” goes far beyond designing a menu, cooking, and receiving diners.