The author lists her top five favorite vendors that she likes to purchase bulk herbs and spices from.
Online Sites for Buying Herbs & Spices
I use tons of herbs and spices in my culinary creations. I can usually find a good selection of fresh herbs throughout the year at my local grocery stores and farmer’s markets. With the exception of fresh ginger root, which can be found in the produce section of grocery stores, spices are usually only available in their dried form.
I use so many spices that it was getting a bit expensive to buy those little jars of spices from the grocery store. I also like to purchase my spices in their whole, un-ground form and grind them as needed. A few years ago I started buying many of my herbs and spices in bulk quantity from a couple of online vendors.
Another way to use bulk herbs and spices is to put together gift baskets of various seasonings for your foodie friends. I recently had dinner at a friends house and brought along a large basket filled with individual containers of vanilla beans, allspice berries, star anise, and juniper berries for the hostess. Another use for the whole spices is to make your own potpourri blends. Homemade potpourri makes a terrific gift idea at any time of the year.
Online Herb & Spice Vendors
Here are my top 5 favorite online sites to buy bulk herbs, spices, teas and essential oils.
- Atlantic Spice Co.
- Mountain Rose Herbs
- Frontier Natural Products Co-op
- San Francisco Herb & Natural Food Co.
- San Francisco Herb Co.
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