SC - regional american food
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 14 14:14:44 PST 2000
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.
*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.
And my computer at home is still down.
Bonne
(from Tony's office)
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