Julia Child And Ina Garten Hate The Same Common Ingredient
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By HILARY WHEELAN REMLEY
It's often said that great minds think alike. In the case of Ina Garten and Julia Child, they both share a strong distaste for cilantro, also known as coriander.
While cilantro packs a punch in terms of both scent and flavor, and has a green, almost citrus taste that is used to brighten up many foods, it is also hated by many people.
Child declared her disdain for cilantro in a 2002 interview with Larry King, per The New York Times, stating she "...would pick it out if [she] saw it and throw it on the floor."
In an interview on The Today Show, Garten proved herself to be in the same camp, though suggesting that her aversion to the herb is physiological rather than psychological.
The Barefoot Contessa also took to heart knowing that Child, one of her culinary inspirations, also found the herb distasteful, when justifying her own anti-cilantro stance.
