[Sca-cooks] catalog finds

[Elaine Koogler]

Volker Bach wrote:

>Am Dienstag, 1. November 2005 21:22 schrieb Devra at aol.com:
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>>        We seem to be moving into the mainstream. Only this week I found
>>the following items:
>>     in Norm Thompson: long peppers, turducken
>>     in Bean and Belug...um, Dean and Deluca: Verjucie (only $24 for two 12
>>oz bottles) and Baumkuchen (as they describe it: Concentric rings of
>>apricot jam, marzipan and sponge cake are baked before an open fire. Topped
>>with vanilla glaze, enjoy any time of day. Germany's adored tree cake still
>>pleases crowds three centuries after the German king hailed it the 'Cake of
>>Kings and the King of Cakes' - $45 for 1lb 8 oz... 
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>Are those preices representative of what you pay in the US? Ye Gods, time to 
>send some CARE packages...
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>Giano
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Actually, we can get some of this stuff for a lot cheaper...it's just 
that these two places are both "gourmet" shops and have correspondingly 
higher prices for everything....

Kiri