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Where to find exotic ingredients


Though I usually enjoy watching shows like Iron Chef and the like, I often get jealous frustrated because of the vast array of food, seasonings, and condiments they have at their disposal. Let's face it, truffles, foie gras, and cinnamon oil don't exactly line my shelves on a regular basis. What is even more frustrating though is when I actually do want to buy some of these exotic ingredients, I can't seem to find them in any of my local markets.

After a bit of a search, I discovered this website which is helping to eliminate that problem - StarChefs.com has compiled a list of chef-recommended "secret ingredients" and where to buy them, making it easier to locate such items as avocado leaves, Mexican chocolate, black mustard seeds, white or black truffle powder and cream, duck confit, chestnut jam, rare cheeses, orange flower water, Tahitian vanilla extract, and smoked Sicilian tuna. Fortunately, even if you don't live near the specified stores (mostly New York or East Coast) many of the shops offer courier service so you can have the ingredients shipped right to your door.

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Filed Under: Stores & Shopping, Ingredients
Tags: america, avocado leaves, black mustard seeds, condiments, east coast, exotic ingredients, ExoticIngredients, mexican chocolate, secret ingredients, shestnut jam, spices, starchefs, stores-and-shopping, tahitian vanilla extract, truffles

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Sam

6-15-2007 @1:13AM Sam said... They also give out a Rising Star award to chefs, like Katsuyu Fukushima.
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Kiwi Carlisle

6-15-2007 @12:20AM Kiwi Carlisle said... Ummmm.... I live in St. Louis, which is hardly known as a hotbed of exotic shopping. I can think of at least a dozen places to buy Mexican chocolate, and five or six places to buy orange flower water, especially if you don't insist on overpriced French varieties but can select from the less expensive Lebanese or Turkish ones. Black mustard seeds aren't that hard to find, either, and these ingredients haven't just been available lately, they've been around here for years. I think that people are just blind to the variety of ethnic grocery stores right under their noses.
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Tony Howell

10-26-2007 @4:00PM Tony Howell said... You may be interested to learn that fresh truffles can now be easily purchased and bid for online globally using a new website which is getting quite a bit of coverage in the UK called http://www.whitetruffleauction.com. You can get further information from the website or at http://freshtruffles.blogspot.com
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