Goofy Louis?

Cilantro in crab louis?

Is this some kind of editorial goof (the computer mixed up lines from two different recipes)? Does your staff contain someone with a deep bias against Seattle and/or Northwest cuisine? Or did you simply repeat, unchecked, an assertion from some unreliable source? Whatever the problem, you owe the world a prompt and prominent retraction.

There is not now nor has there ever been cilantro in a crab louis.

BARBARA COURTNEY, Los Angeles. Editor’s Note: Washington-based food writer John Doerper claims his cilantro-laden Louis is the Seattle original. What can we say?