Meet Cilantro's Tropical Cousin: Culantro

<p><span data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">Meet culantro&mdash;cilantro&rsquo;s tropical counterpart. It tastes like a more pungent cilantro, and in the right conditions, it grows all year round. This episode touches on how limited our repetoire of herbs are and the possiblities that come when we expand our selection beyond what's just avaliable at the grocery store. We&rsquo;ll talk to food blogger Reina Gascon-Lopez on how culantro is used in Puerto Rican cuisine and award-winning cookbook author Andrea Nguyen on how she uses it in Vietnamese cooking</span>.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Topics covered in this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 0:45: Annual plants and their tropical counterparts</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 3:19: Meet Reina Gascon-Lopez</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 4:17: What is culantro?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 6:11: How Reina cooks with cilantro</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 7:42: Culantro in the US</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 8:46: The downside to culantro</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 9:45: Meet Andrea Nguyen</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 11:37: Three sources of cilantro notes in Vietnamese cooking</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 12:42: How colonization and globalization affect our palates</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Min 17:24: Expanding the way you think of herbs</span></li> </ul> <p><span data-sheets-va