On Sep 6, 9:51*am, Andy > wrote:

> There's a small (2 aisle) spice shop in Philly's Italian market. Just
> walking around inside all the scents are quite intoxicating. They have bins
> of loose dried spices you spoon from into plastic bags. I don't know how
> they keep the spices from going stale on an almost daily basis.

They have clientele who buy them and use them regularly. Ditto the
Indian and East Asian spice shops. There's an African store near my
daughter's old high school that I've never had the time to stop into.
Wonder what they carry that might be interesting....

maxine in ri