Posted on 04/23/2014 4:14:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Cilantro was described as an aphrodisiac in the Arabian Nights, but that fact fails to impress those who hate it with a passion.
Cilantro was described as an aphrodisiac in "The Arabian Nights," but that fact fails to impress those who hate it with a passion.
Julia Child famously told Larry King that it has a "dead taste," and she would pick it out of a dish "and throw it on the floor." The pro-cilantro crowd is just as vocal, if not as descriptive. You can find the debate anywhere you find cilantro and the people who meticulously pick it out of their food.
We explore the adoration and hatred of this herb, and some other divisive foods, in our latest edition of Love It, Hate It. To get started, we asked staff writers Joan Morris and Martha Ross to square off on cilantro.
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U beg your pardon! I have eaten gumbo all of my life but not with okra. I can taste it in minute amounts. I make fantastic gumbo with seafood, wild game, even gumbo z`herbs but NEVER with okra. Most of what tourists consume here as gumbo the locals consider slop. File gumbo..no okra ever! I hereby give all the okra I am entitled to as a Southerner to whoever can choke the phlegmy goo down.
You are simply lying. If you have never tasted okra as you say, you have no idea what it tastes like. You can’t have it both ways.
I like ‘em.
They don’t like me.
Well, they don’t get along with the meds I’m taking (Coumadin).
Indulging in a pile of nice dark leafy greens could screw up my clotting rates, and kill me via stroke.
Caesar salad, I miss you...
Like: Kale, Okra, and Cilantro
Hate: Beets and Brussels Sprouts
Cilantro great in salsa
Olive Gardens Zappa Toscana soup has kale and it’s wonderful
Okra yuk!
Brussel sprouts with butter and salt yummy!
Beets haven’t had since my mom forced me to eat it when I was little.
Kale OK
Beets. love, esp. the greens
Okra not enough experience to say
Brussels sprouts. Don’t really like but know they’re good for me
Cilantro Good in certain things
!Brussels sprouts - Yum! On the other hand, even our guinea pig wouldn’t eat cilantro.
A Texan assured me that you shouldn’t judge okra until you’ve had fresh. But she was vegetarian.
Even I know that.
Brussels sprouts- my least favorite food in the whole wide world YUK
Okra- slimy and gross
beets - never liked them at all
Kale- is ok
Cilantro- like very much
Interesting explanation and certainly one that I had never considered before. And yet there are those who say that our umbrella isn’t big enough.
I still have a couple of clients that are staunch liberals. In some ways they make my life easier because I always know how they are going to react to an issue and, often on purpose, phrase it in such a manner as to put the needle in a bit. My conservative clients are all over the board in their reaction to the same issue, even though I never go beyond stating the issue and how it will affect them or any treatment plan they develop for a patient.
Thanks for the insightful comment.
Spent some summers in a little wide spot in the road west of Osborne, Kansas, riding on a combine with my boyfriend during the long days of harvest. Not too much in western Kansas but wind, wheat and comfort food fixed at home. Females grew up learning to cook for threshers. Don’t recall that we ever went out to eat and never had anything out of a can or from a mix.
Just good folks and the salt of the earth.
Well they also have feed yards, and packing plants in Western Kansas. I used to work an 8 county area around Ford County. People used to say there was nothing between us and the North pole but a barb wire fence.
We used to run that area during the mid to late 1950’s. I’m sure what you are describing were added after that. We used to drive from Kansas City to Osborne on Highway 24, just a two lane road, and would spend the night in Clay Center because my folks thought it was too long a drive to make without stopping.
Certainly if you headed north out of Kansas there never used to be anything between you and the North Pole. Always enjoyed driving west though and catching a view of the first snow capped mountain view as you approached Colorado.
Beautiful country - all of it - and each special for the contributions it makes.
Love kale.
I use kale for juicing. Love brussel sprouts. Hate red beets, but like golden beets. Like okra in Brunswick stew.
Yeah, well that's about everything we needed to know right there.
You can’t make Pico De Gallo without cilantro and you can’t have decent Mexican food without Pico.
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