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Cilantro's citrusy alter ego, proving the same plant can live two culinary lives.
means The dried, round seed of the cilantro plant, with a warm, citrusy-spicy flavor totally unlike the fresh leaf's grassy bite.
from From Greek 'koriannon,' a word some ancient writers linked to 'koris,' meaning bedbug — the popular (and slightly unkind) story being that unripe coriander foliage was thought to smell buggy. Whatever the truth of that link, the name traveled through Latin 'coriandrum' and French before settling into English. The plant itself — seeds, leaves, and double life — is the same one Europeans call coriander and Americans split into 'coriander seed' and 'cilantro,' the latter borrowed from Spanish.
- actual identity
- the dried fruit of the cilantro plant
- flavor swap
- tastes nothing like the soapy leaf
- ancient resume
- found in Tutankhamun's tomb as grave goods
- gin secret
- second most common botanical after juniper