SC - Saffron
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Apr 22 17:26:36 PDT 1999
Vicki Strassburg wrote:
>
>> The Pepperer's Guild lists it for $$6.00/dwt. I don't know what a dwt is.
> They also directed me to Gernot Katzer's Spice Page (wow!) which says:
> "Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world (anything below 4 US$
> per gram is suspiciously cheap; explanations range from "probably
> smuggled" to "probably not saffron at all"). In production countries the
> price is, of course, much lower (one tenth), but so is the quality."
A coincidental (I assume) but convenient side effect, of course, being
that it leads people to assume that any price they wish to charge is justifiable.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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