SC - regional american food
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 14 19:02:40 PST 2000
- --- Bonne of Traquair <oftraquair at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Evidently, maraschino cherries are a regional food.
> Here in Caid, I can
> only find a tiny 10-oz bottle on the liquor aisle at
> the grocery store for
> $4. Back home in Atlantia, I could get a pound jar
> from the same shelf as
> the fruitcake fruit for about the same cost. And I
> need at least that much
> for my Christmas baking. I guess I can use glaceed
> cherries. Or dried
> cherries.
Where are you shopping Girl? Sheeze. I guess I
should have given you a better orientation when you
moved here ... I rarely pay for than a dollar or two
for maraschino cherries for the 10 oz jar.
> *Sigh*
>
> I was having a real bad ingredient hunting day
> yesterday. First, every
> grocery in town for the non-existent cherries (I'm
> not paying that price for
> the amount I need.) Then, I went all over northern
> Orange county looking
> for cardamom pods. Back home, at least 5 different
> places sold a large
> variety of spices by weight, 3 within walking
> distance of home, and 2 within
> walking distance of my office. Here, the only place
> I could find it here
> was Wholefoods--whose bulk spice selection is
> nothing like at home. And it
> was the kind already out of the pod, but I wanted
> pods.
Have you tried Smart and Final? I vaguely remember
seeing them there in their bulk spice section. But
then I really haven't been looking for whole cardamom.
Huette
=====
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