. It has changed my spice purchasing to boot. I gave up on the highway robbery of McCormick a long time ago. $6 a jar, use a third, stale in a year. Have been buying from the bulk bins at the local food coop for a while,...

I live in the burbs and a number of the East Coast recipes I have been looking at (thanks Cook’s Illustrated) have a spice mix called “Old Bay” that I have not been able to track down out hear. Rather than...

peas!). i forgot to mention that i use recycled spice jars for “decanting” spices that come in larger packages from the indian grocery store. MUCH cheaper than mccormick's, for sure!

Doing my Spring cleaning of my cupboard and need to replace all of my spices. I do not want to pay high prices or buy little Spice Islands or McCormick crap. Is there a grocer on the Westside that sells bulk spices at good prices...

I’m heading to Penzey’s this evening and want to stock up on old favorites and perhaps try something new. What dried herbs and spices do you keep in your pantry?

That would have to be Old Bay for me. I can put this stuff on or in almost anything and make it better. What’s your secret spice?

I cook many different kinds of food, and as a result I probably have at least 30-50 spices. I have a small apartment kitchen and I don’t have room to put my spices away in a cupboard, so right now I have a small shelf that...

seeds yellow mustard seed, pickling spice mix (in the McCormick tin) white and green peppercorns ground dried lemons (for middle east cooking many others, im sure IN ADDITION, AWAY FROM SPICE CABINET ground sumac, lemon grass, galangal

So, I’ve bought them.... and used them.... and seem to feel that they work just fine, however.... lets look at the price of say, cumin, at the grocery. A little bottle of like McCormick or Spice Island or something will...

Need to buy some cumin for a recipe tonight and I don’t really want to but McCormick's from the market. Is there anyplace downtown that is like a Kalyustan’s? Thanks!

as Encore Gourmet. This is verses $3-$5 for a similiar sized container from one of the national brands McCormick, Spice Islands, etc.... at the grocery store They have seemed to work as well with some of the dishes I have...

I personally, have always loved the Montreal Steak Spice from McCormick's — return to it over and over.

I disagree that supermarket dried spices are beneath us (as chowhounds). McCormick's small glass bottles have some very high quality items which I’ve had to buy at the last minute on occasion. But they are much too...

far below Spice Islands and the like. If you begin to use spices more often, try an Indian market. You can buy a very large bag of a spice (say 16 oz) for the same price as a tiny jar of McCormick (~$5). The turnaround is probably...

My Aunt wrote a recipe around 1970 which calls to use one “small size” of Pickling Spices. I assume she was referring to "McCormick" brand, but I’m not sure. It would have been whatever was the common brand of...