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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Cilantro / Soap

Great article today by Harold McGee about the cilantro-tasting-like-soap phenomena. He recommends cilantro pesto as a way to learn to tolerate it as the crushing of the leaves causes the soap-y flavour compound to disperse. I didn't know the science of it, but that's about the only way I happily tolerate it.

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