[Sca-cooks] Herby things

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

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From: Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com>


Here in Sunny So-Cal (Bakersfield), we don't really have the opportunity to come face-to-face with
anything more exotic than 'toasted sesame seeds'.  However, if I were to have access to a spice
merchant (other than via web), I would ask them to stock the following items:

True Cinnamon (bulk, so I can buy only the number of sticks I need)
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William de Grandfort

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In sunny So-Cal, don't you have Mexican grocery stores?  Here in sometimes-sunny NJ, I get sticks of true cinnamon in a local Hispanic grocery.  Mexicans prefer to use true cinnamon.  I buy it in little cellophane bags, so I can see and feel that the sticks are fragile and loosely coiled, as opposed to the tight, hard sticks of cassia.  (I would *not* trust ground cinnamon, or sticks in an opaque jar.)



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