The Cilantro Gene Myth (Part I)

Look, if I could consult Alex Brands, General Biology Post-doc/Fellow at Lehigh University, on everything I would, but I can’t. Luckily, however, the man has plainly laid it out on the table when it comes to the cilantro hate gene myth. So, he doesn’t call it a myth, as such, but he does say that [...]

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A Play in One Act

Someone Who Isn’t Erin: Love the blog, but can’t get behind hating cilantro. Erin: Thanks!; I don’t care. SWIE: But, don’t you think other people should hate cilantro, want them to hate cilantro? Erin: No, that’s the folks over at ihatecilantro.com (a group I will not be joining in the foreseeable future; although I do [...]

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Cilantro Kills

So, cilantro kills bacteria. That’s according to scientists at the University of California Berkeley and the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, if you want to trust Cal-Mex science, which has always been my favorite flavor. More specifically, 11 of 13 isolated cilantro compounds that were studied were demonstrated to have some effectiveness against pathogenic bacteria, especially [...]

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