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From: zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Looking for cilantro around Boston
Message-ID: <496@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 23:14:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 23:14:17 1985
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Reply-To: zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh.
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Cilantro, fresh, should be possible to get at a farmers' market. ON
THE OTHER HAND, be sure that what you want is fresh cilantro, also
known as coriander. It tastes like soap. Some people, to be sure, think
that it tastes like Good Soap, and like to eat it; personally, I just
think it tastes like soap. If you have a garden, you can grow it from
seed easily, and if you surround the plants that rabbits like to eat with
it, it will help keep them away. Rabbits apparently agree with me about
the taste; they won't touch the stuff. Dried Cilantro is not at all the 
same, nor is coriander seed, dried. If what you want is one of them 
any reputable grocery store should be able to help you, and they don't 
taste like soap. By the way, fresh coriander looks almost identical
to Italian (flat) parsley, which I would eat raw forever happily.

-Elizabeth D. Zwicky