You can also try

www.worldspice.com

they carry a number of hard to find spices and herbs.

Maddie
> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Not anything in particular. Just a range of things that might be
> particularly useful to someone who toys with historical recipes (he's
> especially big on the medieval stuff). My dad is quite resourceful but
> doesn't live in a place with a lot of gourmet cooking stores. I know
> once he was complaining to me about being unable to get long
> peppercorns, for example, whatever those are. Forgive my ignorance as I
> am not much of a cook... but I was just wondering if there are one or
> two good, reliable mail order/online ordering sources that cater a
> little to historic cooking.
>