Inspired by the excellent food sources starting to pop up over on theWhat are you EATING tonight??? thread, I thought it would be useful to break it out into a seperate thread for easy reference. Please add your favorite food sources here!

So far, from the previous discussion, we've got:

From JonesWineNo1:

Certified organic dry aged beef fromPrather Ranch

Maine and Pacific Lobster and other high end seafood (especially various kinds of oysters) fromfarm-2-market.com

From ChicagoWineGeek:

For mail order beef (and lamb, veal, lobster, etc.) Allen Brothers

From myself and others:

For excellent (but expensive) beef, veal, pork, poultry etc:Lobel's of New York

And I will add:

For an excellent selection of furred & feather game, exotic meats, foie gras, etc:Polarica (I love this place, this is where I get all my venison, boar, kangaroo, etc).

Hudson Valley Foie Gras direct (never ordered myself).

So, what are your favorite sources?

www.dartagnan.com for foie, Texas Hill Country Wild Boar (tastes better than Wild Boar sourced from www.polarica.com) dried mushrooms, game birds, duck prosciutto. and especially black truffle butter.

Some caviar sources:

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Best bagels, babka, and rugelach you will ever put in your mouth.

ZABARS!

My sources:

1. Local ethnic stores first, unless the price is better on-line. We have many local sources here in the DC area: italian, salvadorean, guatemalan, mexican, indian, thai, vietnamese, japanese and korean grocers (and they're usually all different, you can't find korean/japanese foods at most thai gocery stores). For example, I get my saffron from the south american grocer for $2.00 a pack. At the gourmet grocery store, its $5.99. At one vietnamese store, they have live flounder year round in tanks for $2.00 a pound. Also, most of these stores offer fresh produce (which are often "specialty produce" at the supermarket) at lower prices.

2. On-line is the best source for prices on most other things. I like earthy.com for dried mushrooms and oils. The best on-line store closed down, it was called "pippins" and they must have had franchises around the country but that's where I bought my 100 yr basalmic and truffle oils at prices I can no longer find. I like hudson valley foie gras for duck stuff. For Virginia ham and bacon, try padows.com.

3. Local gourmet grocery stores. My last source is the local gourmet places, like Sutton Place, Whole Foods (Dean & Deluca type places). The selection is good and you can usually find specialty stuff in a pinch at these places. But you pay for the selection.

I hope to order from one of the specialty meat places listed above for our next tasting dinner. Maybe antelope or buffalo tenderloin.

Anyone know where I can get South carolina (both white and yellow) stone ground coarse grits on-line?

Wow, I'm surprised we aren't seeing more sources

Here's another:

For the best (imo) Scottish smoked salmon around, Scottish Seawild Inc. - 281-363-2664 (Web site is down for redesign). Really nice folks to deal with to boot. When I placed my first order quite some time ago, they took my order and never any payment info. When I finally asked how I was going to pay them, they said the invoice will be in the shipment - just send us a check back. In shock, I mentioned that WOW, that's mighty trusting of you, they simply replied "send us a check, or we'll never send you salmon again"

Try

Di Bruno Brothers

This is a cheese store in the Itallian Market section of Philly. The selection is unbelievable. They also have fois gras, prepared pate's, and all sorts of other specialty stuff. They have some of the best Procciutto I have ever had. They deliver.

I hate to say it, but Amazon.com is beta-testing agourmet food shop.

They've aggregated a whole bunch of different specialty / gourmet food shops, and you can find everything from a whole lobe ofgoose foie gras towhole black truffles... Prepared meals, fish/seafood, coffee/tea, cheese, meats, chocolates, and gift baskets.

No white truffles, yet...

Might be worth a look.

-JDN

Welcome JeffreyN! Any relation to DavidN and TriciaN?

You got me! After a year of lurking and searching for posts by davidn to see what's happening, I finally decided to post.

welcome, jeffreyn .




does this mean we've become n-fected ?

Excellent, JeffreyN. Welcome. And, another IT geek @ that.

DavidN (this part of the post is for you): Family is EXCLUDED from any & all of your "dumps". Something called...conflict of interest.

JeffreyN - Are you the one responsible for that great 360 degree view of you Pop's cellar?

Yes, that's me in the mirror holding the camera. It was my first shot at doing a QTVR stitch, and seeing as how I just went in there, took a few pictures without a tripod, and stitched the photos together with demo software one afternoon, it came out fairly well. Things have changed a little bit, though -- the cellar is a bit more "finished", and there are less empty storage spots!

JeffreyN... Welcome. We look forward to many posts from 'the rest of the family'.

For the best tuna (loin and canned) check these guys out:

www.tunatuna.com

Ever since I found these guys after a profile in the newspaper, I've never gone back to starkist.

JeffreyN-- Welcome mini-Pop!!

tunatuna-- A most excellent site. I better not let my cat Nigel see this thread. heh heh heh

This is a great idea for a thread. I am letting Mrs. TJ know about it (NOT telling her to come and look here, just that I now have an additional excellent resource for web-based food hunting expeditions). An excellent resource.

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You probably say "Bro".

Anyone got a source for Pancetta?