Now I'm wondering about why we use both words. Cilantro sounds Spanish, and it's used in lots of Mexican food, so I'm figuring that's where we got the word from, but why did we use it for only the plant and not the seed?
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Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 2:28:56 pm PDT #7560 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 2:39:50 pm PDT #7561 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, the internet tells me that cilantro/coriander is also known as Chinese parsley, and that it was one of the first plants grown by the British colonists in the US, and that the word cilantro does in fact come from Spanish, but no information on why we kept both words.
amych - Apr 22, 2009 3:01:10 pm PDT #7562 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wonder if it's something as simple as English-speakers tending to use the seeds and Spanish-speakers using the leaves until fairly recently (within food cultures of the Americas, specifically)
billytea - Apr 22, 2009 3:26:24 pm PDT #7563 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Was I right about them both being called coriander in the UK? Here, we use it two ways -- grind up the seeds as a spice, and eat the plant as an herb -- and the seeds are called coriander, but the herb is cilantro. Both are coriander in the UK?
And in Australia. (To add the data point, I am not a supertaster and I can't stand coriander leaves.)
Barb - Apr 22, 2009 3:32:39 pm PDT #7564 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
And to add to the confusion, there's also in Latin-American cooking, "culantro" (hard "c"), also known as Mexican coriander.
Crazymaking, I tell you.
beth b - Apr 22, 2009 4:12:48 pm PDT #7565 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
y'all just made me hungry.
There are foods that I am indifferent to,( white rice, geoduck, cottage cheese, green peppers) and only a few foods I don't like -- tongue ( tried it once -- it was vietnamese style ), green olives , and twinkies ( they are not food, sp I don't know if they count. ) Plus I am a pepper wimp, but I love horseradish
sj - Apr 22, 2009 4:32:56 pm PDT #7566 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Tonight at Mom's I found some decoupage jewelery that I made ages ago. They're not that bad. Mostly little wooden trinket boxes and wooden bracelets.
sj - Apr 22, 2009 5:07:28 pm PDT #7567 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm headed to bed. Wish me sleep~ma!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 22, 2009 5:08:09 pm PDT #7568 of 30000
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many zzzzzz~ma's to you...
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 5:08:29 pm PDT #7569 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ow. The past few days, my back's been hurting some, and now it's really hurting. I have no idea what brought this on. Just took two Tylenol and three Aleve, which usually is enough to let me get to sleep.