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LIVING IN FRANCE
Don’t Tell Me How To Make $5,000 Overnight. Don’t Tell Me How To Lose Ugly Belly Fat. Please, I’m Begging You . . . Just Tell Me How To Grow Coriander
Tell me that first, then we’ll get to the money
OK, let’s get the money thing out of the way . . . if you absolutely know how I can score a quick $5,000, I’ll listen. Otherwise, I just want to know how to grow cilantro.
This stupid little green herb is driving me crazy. It’s like a petulant toddler — ‘No, don’t like this. No, don’t like that. Noooo.’
What the hell does it like?
If you’re reading this in the States or the UK, you might be wondering why not just buy coriander from the supermarket. I have occasionally bought something that’s mislabeled as coriandre but turns out to be Italian parsley — it does nothing for enchiladas. Coriandre is also sold in tiny plastic-wrapped sprigs that have no scent and are equally useless for seasoning Mexican food.
A word about names. In the States, cilantro is the green leafy herb that appears when the coriander seed sprouts. Here in France the seed and the leaf (assuming you can ever get the seed to sprout and form a leaf) is coriandre. Brits call it coriander.
