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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:51:22 -0400, Dave Smith
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>On 19/04/2012 12:34 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
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>> What's really sad is when you are pinching the two herbs in the
>> supermarket and you still can't tell which is flat leaf parsley and
>> which is cilantro.

>
>Are your serious? They look a lot alike. In fact, the cilantro I get at
>the grocery store looks more Italian parsley than like the cilantro that
>grows in my garden. But the smell?? IMO cilantro in very distinctly
>different.
>

That was my point. The stuff in the store is so old that the smell is
no longer there for either herb. Not that I was too stupid to be able
to tell the difference.
Janet US