right now and we shouldn’t expect it. But I won’t pretend I’m not glad that I can get hold of specific ingredients by filling a virtual shopping basket.
I try not to use Amazon because they can pack two small packs of coffee capsules in a box that would hold a football, instead I have a list of dependable companies who sell unusual ingredients and spices from all over the world.
The excellent Souschef and Spice Mountain stock stuff I haven’t even heard of. I grew up in the sticks in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Getting spices to cook Indian food required a trip to Belfast, and even there the pickings could be slim. When I asked my local greengrocer for avocados, he thought they were a variety of pear and suggested using Conference instead.
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