While I can't get all excited about celery, I use it often in cooking.

It finds it way into homemade soups, tuna, shrimp and egg salads and several other dishes.

I like the crisp texture it adds and it holds up fairly well when cooked for a length of time.

Cilantro is another story. I spent my whole life despising it but I now live in CA with a Mexican restaurant on every corner.

And they all use boatloads of cilantro.

And you can't eat around cilantro or pick it out of something as it overpowers whatever it's used with. Once it's in a dish, that's it.

One day a year or so ago, I decided I no longer hate cilantro and now I mildly enjoy it and actually add it to some recipes.

Strange.