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cgod · 3913 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask the Food Lab: What's the Point of Bay Leaves? | Serious Eats
Bay leaves from the grocery store are usually past their prime. My mom buys spices from some online source and passes some on to me a few times a year, her bay leaves are way better than any bought from a market.
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.