News For Curious Cooks: Cilantro flavor, loved and hated

The taste of Cilantro (US English for Coriander) is definetely an acquired one. At first it tastes like soap. My first experience was in a Vietnamese restaurant in the 80s in Paris. They called it Chinese parsley perhaps to make it more palatable to their clients. Anyway, I started to get used to the taste and in fact I really like it now. Harold McGee of The Curious Cook shared an article on his blog which sheds some light on why this is an acquired taste. News For Curious Cooks in the New York Times: Cilantro flavor, loved and hated
Checking out the net I stumbled over lots of websites about the Cilantro/Coriander taste. There is a real anti-cilantro community out there. Take a look at this one. "I hate Cilantro"