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Default Coriander substitute?

Farm1 wrote:
> "Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>> Culinarilly "coriander" refers to the plants dried seeds... culinarily
>> there is no such thing as "fresh coriander"...

>
> That would apply only in the US.
>
> USians call coriander leaf by the name 'cilantro' but English speakers in
> the rest of the world call it coriander whether it is in form of the leaf or
> ground or seeds.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/coriander
> http://allrecipes.com.au/recipes/tag-496/coriander.aspx
>
>

Interesting. I wonder why you haven't also made the switch,
because it does eliminate all possible confusion and the need to
add "seeds" or "green" or some other descriptor.

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