appears available at the link .. and they appear to be retail and wholesale .... i have never done biz with them .. ken Here is a link that might be useful: link

I picked up an entire selection of pickling spices - Bay leaves, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, celery seeds, dill seeds, Jamaican Allspice, black peppercorns, Szechuan peppercorns, red pepper flakes, yellow mustard seed, and curry powder - at a health food store yesterday. The only item on my list that they didn't have was brown mustard seed. There's a larger health food store on the other side of town. I'll to there for those seeds and the Kosher salt. Everything was so very fresh, in bulk, and sooo much cheaper than I would have paid for the jarred spices at a grocery store. My tomatoes here in North Dakota are just starting to come on with small green tomatoes. I plan on making several batches of these four versions of pickled green tomatoes. I've got everything ready...just waiting on the cherry and olive tomatoes to be fully grown but still green. http://www.gardenbetty.com/2011/08/four-ways-to-pickled-green-tomatoes/

Woohoo - looks like my Pineapple Lily is going to bloom again after all this time! I've had it in a larger pot since my original post here, as that was one recommendation the Bulb Forum had. I planted the bulbs 6 inches down and have left them in that pot since (bringing the pot inside over winter, and taking it back out in the late spring). I had just about given up hope, but when I checked the pot just now, I saw the beginnings of a flower forming in one of them :)

Shambo, after I got a couple of cans of 'crushed' pineapple that were more like 'pineapple sauce', I started buying only cans of pineapple slices and pineapple chunks. The pineapple slices are easier to cut up into bits when a recipe calls for crushed p'apple than the chunks are. I always want the texture and toothie-ness of defined bits of pineapple. Although I've not tried it, I don't think the food processor would work very good for chopping p'apple. BTW, you might try 'pineapple tidbits' if you can find them. There are several brands of them...Del Monte, Dole & Great Value (Wal-Marts' house brand). I've not used them yet since I mostly use p'apple for upside down cake & stir fry. So I only keep chunks & slices in the pantry & make tidbits out the slices on the rare occasion that I need them.