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It tastes like cilantro, but does it? Rating the substitutes

Posted on January 20, 2022

Cilantro, the plant we in Hawaii once knew as Chinese parsley, is a gardener’s frustration.

It’s slow to sprout, and once it gets above ground, a feast for slugs and snails. Then, if we’re lucky enough to get a few leaves of it, it goes to seed in the hot Hawaii sun.

We hear that there are plants that are like cilantro, but are there really?

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