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[desperance]

Found via nihilistic_kid:

I need to get some of this. Just to know. I have long believed that no chocolate could be too dark for me, I who chew cocoa-nibs for pleasure while I bake; it is possible that I'm just wrong. I need to find out. Besides, I can always cook with it...

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Now look, you can't do this here - not when I'm just about to try growing the wonderful herb for the nth year in succession (it sprouts very easily, grows very fast and runs to seed barely before it's leafed at all; there are allegedly alternate varieties that don't do that, but all those I've tried just do the same thing, which is v dispiriting).

To be fair, to be honest: like you, I used to loathe it. I didn't meet it until I was a young adult, and I thought my tastes were fixed, and it was the wrong side of the line (not soap; I found a bitterness to it that I couldn't imagine ever growing fond of). Happily, I was wrong. It took a few years, but it became essential to my adult palate, and I can't hear it vilified, without leaping to the lovely thing's defence...

*wanders off, to plant coriander*

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

You can have my share. Ick. :)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Good grief. That makes three of you. Is there no one on my friends list who likes coriander...?

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Obviously you only appeal to people with a certain genetic make-up. I'll have the coriander seed though, you can keep the leaf.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

You do know that I'm another of the loves the seed, tolerates the leaf types...?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Actually no, didn't know that. Having discovered the leaf as a grown-up taste myself, I do kind of assume that all those people who have grown up before or around me have made the same journey, and now share all my adult pleasures. Alas...