[Sca-cooks] Saffron in Ireland

[Cathy Harding]

I was visiting in the town I grew up in,  State College, PA.  YOu can't to
this day find some things that I take for granted.....

I leave near seattle, wa  and visit Tony the spice guy on a regular basis.
 I should have stocked up!

Maeve
> Maeve,
>
> Do you have a Cost Plus Imports out there, or are they a west coast thing?
>  If you do, they usually have saffron at a reasonable price, but you may
> have to keep check back for it as they do sell out.
>
> Samrah
>
> Cathy Harding <charding at nwlink.com> wrote:
>
>>> the Medieval period, "Indian saffron" was tumeric.
>
>
> I recently had the experience of buying what I thought was saffron
> (Labeled American saffron), on close examination was safflower. I
> returned it and gave a detailed explanation of why that it was a
> misleading label and showed the real thing. At least I was able to find
> it in Central PA. it took some searching tho'
>
> Maeve
>
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