SC - Practical Anthropology: Reducing Bones

[grizly@mindspring.com]

Welcome to all the new people who have joined recently.

Someone was asking about sources of unusual spices and other less-
common ingredients.  I see that several people have already identified 
the mail-order spice places.  Depending on where you live, ethnic 
grocery stores can be a wonderful source.  In my area, the Hispanic 
grocery supplies me with dried fava beans and bottled sour orange juice. 
 From the Chinese grocery, I can get almidon (wheat starch), canned 
cooked fava beans, and galangal.  And the Pakistani/Indian stores 
provide rosewater, pomegranate concentrate, cheap almonds, and 
various dried fruits.  If you're shopping for spices, it helps to know the 
botanical Latin name of the spice in question.  Otherwise, you may 
sometimes find yourself staring at a bag of brown powder labelled in 
Arabic or Chinese, and the only intelligible words, "Contents: ground 
Eugenia caryophyllata".

Incidently, I wasn't paying much attention to the saffron discussion.  Is 
$17/oz. considered a good price for Spanish saffron?


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net