a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by humanodon
humanodon  ·  4007 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask the Food Lab: What's the Point of Bay Leaves? | Serious Eats

Yeah, if it says "McCormick" it's likely to be stale. It's kind of whack that one of the reasons for The Age of Exploration was to secure a steady trade in spices and hundreds of years later there's a whole lot of post-colonial malaise and dusty vials of faded flavor on grocery store shelves.