Plus, find out whether you can swap one for the other. Getty Images Have you ever bought a bunch of parsley, only to realize you accidentally grabbed cilantro—or vice versa? You're not alone. It ...

Curly parsley, with its frilly leaves, also tends to hold up better for photography, food stylist Marie Ostrosky told me, compared with Italian’s generally more tender leaves.

Евгения Матвеец/Getty IMages You’re ready to try a new recipe out and the shopping list looks pretty straightforward. Bread crumbs, lemon, parsley…Wait, that last one is a bit ambiguous. After all, ...

In flat parsley, each leafy section ends in jagged, pointed tips, whereas curly parsley has ruffled leaves that curl in on themselves, adds Beitchman. Cilantro: ...

Curly parsley is mostly just good for adding color and "doesn't taste like much to me." Compared to other herbs, parsley is much less assertive but by no means is it insipid.

Bread crumbs, lemon, parsley…Wait, that last one is a bit ambiguous. After all, the herb section of the produce aisle boasts not one but two types of parsley.

In flat parsley, each leafy section ends in jagged, pointed tips, whereas curly parsley has ruffled leaves that curl in on themselves, adds Beitchman. Cilantro: ...

Parsley deserves to be more than an afterthought. When chef Rahman “Rock” Harper, founder of Queen Mother’s Fried Chicken in Arlington, Va., began his culinary career in the 1990s… ...