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Cilantrophobia
Interesting article in the NY Times about cilantro. I think we all know people who either love or hate cilantro.
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The authoritative Oxford Companion to Food notes that the word “coriander” is said to derive from the Greek word for bedbug, that cilantro aroma “has
been compared with the smell of bug-infested bedclothes” and that “Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this
smell.”
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"Cilantrophobia" i hope i don't get "that"
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More from that NY Times article...it's a long one, but an interesting read...especially a part that talks about how the brain deals with smell and
taste.
"Modern cilantrophobes tend to describe the offending flavor as soapy rather than buggy. I don’t hate cilantro, but it does sometimes remind me of
hand lotion. Each of these associations turns out to make good chemical sense.
Flavor chemists have found that cilantro aroma is created by a half-dozen or so substances, and most of these are modified fragments of fat molecules
called aldehydes. The same or similar aldehydes are also found in soaps and lotions and the bug family of insects."
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Until I quit smoking 20 years ago, I could not stand the way it tasted. Thought that it tasted like soap.
Now I cant get enough of the stuff.
It is said to be good to fight off salmonella but I think that the quantities required are huge.
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I love cilantro, but now I am going to be looking for if it smells like something else.....
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Eat Your Spinach!
I really had no idea of the level of disaffection that existed for cilantro. Perhaps it has something to do with living mostly in Southern California
for the past 30 years, and patronizing a panoply of Mexican restaurants. Now. I can really and wholeheartedly get behind the anti-lima bean movement!
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Where's the "I can take it or leave it" option? 
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Kate - I figured 'like' 'dislike' would cover that. You must lean at least a little bit towards 'take it' or 'leave it'.
So far, I'm a bit surprised by the poll.
Will have to try cilantro on my lima beans tonight. Sounds delicious.
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We are divided on this important issue, so cilantro gets chopped up and left as a self-serve side-dish. Here's a painting called "Guacamole sans
Cilantro" or "Painting Makes Me Hungry".
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I am a cilantro hater
I admit it.
In the early 70's when I first started eating Mexican food, spending time in Ensenada where my in-laws had a house, I never remember coming across
that horrible taste. I wasn't until I was living in west Texas in the mid 80's when I started asking myself, "What is that horrible taste?What did
they put in this stuff? (About the time restaurants came up with the dish "Fajitas').
Now I scrutinize the menu of dishes that may contain cilantro (found in SE Asian food as well). I will turn back meals that include it, since it was
not listed on the menu.  Servers can be clueless about what is in the food
they serve, so I will often tell them that I am allergic so they will actually ask the cook instead of guessing.
And who made up the rule that chopped onion has to be mixed with cilantro?
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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Thank you for 'fessing up Jeans....I KNEW without a doubt that BMG was going to accuse me of somehow voting twice!! It's really vile stuff....huh?
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Interesting thread! I thought I was the only person in the world that disliked cilantro. It is unavoidable in most if not all salsas, and other
mexican dishes. I can deal with it in small doses but I try to avoid it whenever possible. To me it has a very pungeant mint type taste. I get a
similar taste when I bite into rye bread. Those are the only two things that are commonly loved by most but very much disliked by me.
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cilantro dressing nothing better on a salad except more cilantro.
It is our best selling salad dressing at the Posada Don Diego. I make it fresh couple times a week. my favorite cilantro tacos. just cilantro. lime
and some avocado. We will make them for you if you want. But they are not on the menu. YET
But you can ask for them.
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Man oh man...ya just never know what topics spring up on Nomads...LOVE IT! and LOVE cilantro. Like nancy's yummy painting...some foods just HAVE to
include cilantro. Ceviche without it is downright unacceptable. We have been known to take a couple hours in our search for cilantro in all the little
tiendas in town and people's gardens....now I dont start making ceviche unless the key ingredient is on hand.
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Love the stuff! Never thought the taste was soapy though..a little metallic in large quantities.
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Cilantro..it reminds me of lichen..the green moss on some Up North rocks I used to eat as a child.
The Mulege Cilantro-Haters Club meets every Saturday at Dany's Carnitas.
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This thread was inspiring to me. Last evening I went out to harvest from my large cilantro patch, then made cilantro pesto for my dinnertime
breakfast burrito. Delicious!
nena
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| Quote: | Originally posted by irenemm
cilantro dressing nothing better on a salad except more cilantro.
It is our best selling salad dressing at the Posada Don Diego. |
Any chance of your sharing that recipe!?!?!?!
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the cilantro leaves from the immature coriander plant are delicous as is the ground coriander, but the seeds get stuck in my teeth.
Bob Durrell
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I definitely fall into the 'love it' category but Linguine is more in the 'like it' category (barely.) My mother used to like just about everything,
except cilantro. Then, a couple of years ago, we had a friend stay at the house on his bike ride from Seattle to Tierra del Fuego and he told us that
cilantro tasted like soap to him. That was the first time I had ever heard that. Since then I heard it several times.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
| Quote: | Originally posted by irenemm
cilantro dressing nothing better on a salad except more cilantro.
It is our best selling salad dressing at the Posada Don Diego. |
Any chance of your sharing that recipe!?!?!?! |
Her cilantro dressing is VERY good---so maybe, just maybe....
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