The great Cilantro Shortage of 2013...

@Lustig Andrei,

Parsley was supposedly used in Medieval times as a breath freshener. Cilantro, I'm not big into, but I grow both because you can't cook Thai or Mexican (to name but two) without it. And parsley, I'm meh about. But I grow it. This year it's the flat leafed Italian variety.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lots of people eat parsley, and like cilantro, I can't understand why. Maybe they like the feeling of having there tonsils tickled, though endive works better if that's your thrill. According to legend, parsley is good for people with bad breath. Quite sure that applies to none of us.

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@Lustig Andrei,

you can add soap flakes as needed...

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The end of cilantro? Oh, consummation devoutly to be desired!

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Erm...that looks an awful lot like Coriander.

Who the heck decided to call it Cilantro.

Had me all confused for a minute.

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@Lordyaswas,

See, if you google the correct name (ie the name that the vast majority of the world knows and loves), you will see loads of articles.....

www.dnaindia.com/pune/1850410/report-shortage-of-stock-shoots-up-coriander-price-rs40-bunch

The big debate...
www.everywhereist.com/cilantro-vs-coriander-and-the-verbal-bloodbath-that-ensued/

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next step will be Strongly Worded Letter to supermarket's customer service page.

they claim the store still carries it, but we apparently went shopping when it was temporarily out of stock.

that is one large load of horse excrement...

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@Lustig Andrei,

Of course parsley has a taste, and very different from cilantro. Which in my 'hood' we call 'Arabic parsley'.

Perhaps the CIA included it in its rendition programme?

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@Region Philbis,

I love it when a shop assistant tells me (whilst chewing) "if it ain't on the shelf, we ain't got it."

Or....."we don't stock it 'cos there's no demand."

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@Region Philbis,

grow it
don't delay
start now

tomatoes as well

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@Lordyaswas,

We call the seeds coriander and the leaves cilantro.

Go figure...

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@JPB,

We in the rest of the world have a secret code when purchasing coriander in a shop. We just add the word leaf, or seed, as applicable Very Happy

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HA! I've been hoarding fresh cilantro and keeping several thousand tons of it in an undisclosed freight train which changes locations every 6 hours.

I will be expecting a ransom of $500 million for its release or I burn it all in one gigantic salsaesque bonfire!

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@Lustig Andrei,

I put a lot of parsley in tabbouleh, like it a lot.

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@Rockhead,

Rockhead wrote:

parsley is a decent substitute...

Go stand in the corner.

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@JPB,

There's much controversy and confusion so it makes the topic spicy. I just read that the dry seed is referred to as coriander.

Then I read this:

"Cilantro, coriander, and Chinese [and Mexican] parsley are all exactly the same thing, which means that the simple answer to this question is that there is no difference between cilantro and coriander. These different terms are used in different regions of the world; in Latin America, for example, many people say “cilantro,” while in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, people say “coriander.”

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@Region Philbis,

theres this new thing called SEEDS. Just get a pack of whole coriander seeds and plant em. In but a few days you will have a dense crop of cilantro, a biennial plant in the parsley family.
You will also attract swallowtail butterfly to lay their egg on a cilantro bush and the caterpillar will munch away (sacrificing a cilantro to such a beautiful creature is a small price.

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@farmerman,

if we do go this route, do you think it'll grow indoors?

we've got a south-facing room full of plants that seem to do well all year round...

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@Region Philbis,

I've grown it indoors under a grow light. It may get a little leggy and reach towards the window unless you rotate it constantly.

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

We in the rest of the world have a secret code when purchasing coriander in a shop. We just add the word leaf, or seed, as applicable .

We in the civilized world use that system for dill. In the shop you may ask for dill seed or dill weed. (I, for one, have absolutely no idea what dill seed is used for, except as a means of growing more dill weed, and have never attempted its use.)

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