I used to love the Observer magazine’s column titled “This much I know” (it was one of the only things worth reading in there – along with Nigel Slater). I haven’t read it in a while, California not having very many places where you can buy the Observer, but I’m very glad that Green Fairy pointed me to this one by Stephen Fry:

“…coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society”