If you're looking for a good place to get excellent spices in general, I cannot recommend Penzey's Spices highly enough. Their spices and spice blends are fresh; they are ethically sourced, too. They have a terrific online store and often have bundled offers/specials. www.penzeys.com
Used to be. Before 2016, Penzey's was an excellent seller of spices. Since 2016, the current head of the family firm, Bill Penzey, has also used his company newsletter (and his own funds) to customers to continually advocate his political line. What he does as a citizen and/or with his profits is his business. And I'm sure some many people agree with his political line. But others want to get their spices and their opinions separately, no matter what side of the aisle.
Penzey’s IS an excellent seller of spices. If you don’t like his politics, don’t buy from them. But suggesting that the product is compromised somehow is gross and aggressive and this is an inappropriate place to make your, personal political argument.
SHOPPING - depending on where you live, stores available, how pandemic restrictions affect your area. * Spice merchants who do online, mail and package delivery. Examples - Spice House in Chicago, Kalustyan's in New York, diasporaco.co in Oakland. Many other good ones available. * General merchants or your local grocery stores who sell spices. * Bricks and mortar stores. Examples - bulk merchants for things like coffee, flour, spices. Indian and Middle Eastern stores, if you have them. In all cases, it is better to buy the cardamom FORMATS in descending order: 1) Best - black seeds 2) green pods (which have black seeds in them) 3) ground powdered spice. Last, don't buy black smoky cardamom - it's very good, but more for savory dishes. If you buy in MAIL ORDER, take it as an opportunity to buy other spices you don't find locally, either ones hard to get or whole formats which last longer and give better taste. Make enough of an order to save on shipping costs. Last, if you need to use GROUND FORMAT cardamom instead of the seeds here, use just under the amount of whole specified. For MORE INFO on spice usage, and swapping back & forth between whole & ground, see linked article. https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/spice-conversion-whole-to-ground-article Maybe too long, or more info than you needed. But it's a great spice to use in baking, coffee making and savory dishes, so worth it.
OldGrayMare - just saw where you live (I had a cousin born there) and see in my list of spice merchants one relatively close to you. Spicewalla in Asheville, NC. https://www.spicewallabrand.com/collections/products
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Before 2016, Penzey's was an excellent seller of spices.
Since 2016, the current head of the family firm, Bill Penzey, has also used his company newsletter (and his own funds) to customers to continually advocate his political line.
What he does as a citizen and/or with his profits is his business.
And I'm sure some many people agree with his political line.
But others want to get their spices and their opinions separately, no matter what side of the aisle.
* Spice merchants who do online, mail and package delivery. Examples - Spice House in Chicago, Kalustyan's in New York, diasporaco.co in Oakland. Many other good ones available.
* General merchants or your local grocery stores who sell spices.
* Bricks and mortar stores. Examples - bulk merchants for things like coffee, flour, spices. Indian and Middle Eastern stores, if you have them.
In all cases, it is better to buy the cardamom FORMATS in descending order:
1) Best - black seeds
2) green pods (which have black seeds in them)
3) ground powdered spice.
Last, don't buy black smoky cardamom - it's very good, but more for savory dishes.
If you buy in MAIL ORDER, take it as an opportunity to buy other spices you don't find locally, either ones hard to get or whole formats which last longer and give better taste. Make enough of an order to save on shipping costs.
Last, if you need to use GROUND FORMAT cardamom instead of the seeds here, use just under the amount of whole specified.
For MORE INFO on spice usage, and swapping back & forth between whole & ground, see linked article.
https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/spice-conversion-whole-to-ground-article
Maybe too long, or more info than you needed. But it's a great spice to use in baking, coffee making and savory dishes, so worth it.
Spicewalla in Asheville, NC.
https://www.spicewallabrand.com/collections/products