People Are Revealing The Foods That Changed Their Lives Forever, And I Know What Im Having For Dinner Tonight
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« My parents took me to a botanical garden for my birthday one year, and we got lunch at the small restaurant inside. It was a bit of a fancier place. For dessert, I got a lemon tart with blueberry compote. I took my first bite and… something happened. I felt like I saw the whole of the universe. »
« The blueberry compote was the most delicious thing I’d ever had in my LIFE, and I begged our server to ask the chef WHY. Coriander seed. The chef had tossed in a bit of the ground stuff as he made the compote, on a lark. A year later, I was still thinking about this damn dessert, and I sent an email to the restaurant to tell them that their chef had changed my life. To this day, coriander always goes with blueberries. Hell, I put coriander in my blueberry yogurt. »
