Gene Therapy: on cilantro The Inquisitive Eater “Whatever genetic inclinations I may have once had were now mingled with memories, the exhilaration of a new relationship, and a palate that had been shocked against its will into expanding. The disgust I’d felt at that church supper was real, based on the incontestable evidence of my senses, and visceral in the most literal way…. But one of the privileges of growing up is to be given the chance to re-feel, re-sense, reinterpret out reactions, and discover pleasure where we’d previously only known bleh. Our gut reactions can change.” Back to Essays & Stories