There's nothing fun about coming home with arms full of groceries, ready to cook your magnificent, herb-laden feast, only to find that your parsley and dill from three days ago have melted into a yellow-brown puddle of slime. It's happened to me, more times than I want to count, and you've likely been there too (right?). So here's how to kick out the creature from the black lagoon
out so you can enjoy all that green, leafy goodness.
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I'm a big fan of cilantro buckets. Cilantro haters, make way for F*** Yeah Cilantro, a blog dedicated to the awesomeness of cilantro run by someone who really, really loves cilantro. You can tell, because the blogger says, "IF YOU DON'T LOVE CILANTRO WITH ALL YOUR HEART I WILL FIGHT YOU." That's love....
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Some think cilantro and think, green herb in guacamole, but others look at the leaves and shudder, cursing the evildoer for ruining otherwise vibrant curries, Indian chutneys and Mexican salsas. Roughly 2,000 haters have gathered on the web-based community IHateCilantro.com to "tell their story," buy anti-cilantro mugs and pray that one day we'll all wake up and it'll all just parsley. The community's manifesto reads: "Together they have chosen against cilantro. They have chosen against it in their meals, in their kitchens and in their stomachs." Beyond tees, members can purchase throw pillows, steins and even fuzzy bears branded with the slashed-out cilantro bunch. Poets can vent under the site's "haiku" section, where one member "Milford," for example, had the...
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