[Sca-cooks] Ethnic market epiphanies

[David Friedman]

One more thing, which I may have mentioned in a previous thread.

I wanted to do an al-Warraq recipe for a rack of lamb ribs. Individual 
Lamb rib chops at the local supermarket cost almost $20/lb! A local 
Mexican grocery store had a whole rack--the butcher cut it in half for 
me--at under $5/lb.

On 3/7/13 12:11 PM, Beth Harper wrote:
> Just from the shopping list from my most recent feast -
>
> kid and lamb, rose petal jam, lemon-quince and rose beverage syrups,
> pomegranate molasses, bulb fennel, and lentils from a Persian grocer
>
> quail and eggplant (both MUCH cheaper than mainstream supermarkets)
> and wheat starch from a Southeast Asian grocer
>
> dried pomegranate seeds, fresh sesame oil, nigella, edible camphor,
> dates, and saffron from an Indian grocer.
>
> I pretty much can't walk out of an Indian grocery store without
> spices! In general, where SCA cooking is concerned, I like Middle
> Eastern grocers for pre-made things (condiments, syrups and such) and
> for fresh vegetables and red meat; Indian and Latin grocers for
> spices, seafood, outrageously cheap cheese, and red meat, and
> east/southeast Asian grocers for some vegetables, fruit, poultry, and
> just about any non-wheat, non-corn alternatives (wheat starch, rice
> flour, etc.).
>
> And of course Russian and Polish places for Central and Eastern
> European specialties - preserved wild mushrooms, millet, buckwheat
> groats, salt-preserved fish. Cheeses! Cheeses are sometimes quite a
> bit cheaper at an Eastern European market (though not usually cheaper
> than Latin markets), and always more diverse.
>
> So many other things I can' t think of off the top of my head! I shop
> mainly in the Denver Metro (Barony of Caerthe, Outlands) area, fwiw.
>
> Liepa
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:24 AM,  <galefridus at optimum.net> wrote:
>> One of the things that I had to learn fairly early on as I've been playing this game is where to shop for ingredients. Ethnic markets of one sort or another have played a major role in this process.
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