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Article: CILANTRO? IT'S AN ACQUIRED TASTE, A GOOD ONE.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Recipe)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 27, 1993
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Byline: JOHN OWEN - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost," critic Lucius Beebe once claimed.
The opposite view suggests that society's true epicure is a cow.
What else can you conclude after learning from Mr. Science that the average cow has 25,000 taste buds? Humans are equipped with only 10,000.
Well, one thing you might conclude is that our taste buds have been cultivated. Cows are not normally allowed outside the pasture or milk barn. Which is why you seldom if ever see them lined up at the takeout window at Jack in the Box or ...