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Affordable Luxuries
If you love to cook, even just at holidays, you owe it to yourself--try some spices from The Spice House. This is the place Alton Brown visited for his show on spices, and just opening the mailer will take your breath away.
They sell 4, count them, FOUR different types of cinnamon, from the delicate Ceylon variety folks in Europe and Mexico prefer, to the dark, heady Saigon cinnamon we couldn't buy for 25 years. They sell chocolate extract, created the same way as vanilla--as well as a "knock your socks off" vanilla. If you buy a gift pack, Spice House packs the jars with bay leaves, whole nutmegs and Indonesian cinnamon sticks.
I won't ask if you have ten year old spices in your pantry. Dump them out under the cover of darkness, and go get new ones! Some places you can buy small amounts of bulk to put back in those jars if you want!
Enjoy!
http://www.thespicehouse.com/info/location_evanston.php
They sell 4, count them, FOUR different types of cinnamon, from the delicate Ceylon variety folks in Europe and Mexico prefer, to the dark, heady Saigon cinnamon we couldn't buy for 25 years. They sell chocolate extract, created the same way as vanilla--as well as a "knock your socks off" vanilla. If you buy a gift pack, Spice House packs the jars with bay leaves, whole nutmegs and Indonesian cinnamon sticks.
I won't ask if you have ten year old spices in your pantry. Dump them out under the cover of darkness, and go get new ones! Some places you can buy small amounts of bulk to put back in those jars if you want!
Enjoy!
http://www.thespicehouse.com/info/location_evanston.php