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Virgin almond, pistachio, pecan, hazelnut, and walnut oils pressed by artisan craftspeople.

Chef's Catalog P.O. Box 620048 Dallas, TX 75262 (800) 338-3232.

Quality kitchenware from brand names such as All Clad, Le Creuset, KitchenAid, and Cuisinart, to name but a few. Rice cooker machines.

cooking.comThe Baking Shop on this site features the finest in bakeware and handy utensils for the home baker. The Baking Ingredients section carries an impressive array of nine hard-to-find sugars, in addition to chocolate, extracts, and farro. Rice cooker machines.

EthnicGrocer.comProducts found around the world, from Asia (Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines) and India to Latin America and countries in between. This is the place for Greek and Turkish foods (pickled grape leaves), bulghol bulghol crushed wheat, and specialty olive oils. Order rices, semolina, blue cornmeal, crystallized ginger, pomegranate mola.s.ses, and more. crushed wheat, and specialty olive oils. Order rices, semolina, blue cornmeal, crystallized ginger, pomegranate mola.s.ses, and more.

Gibbs Wild Rice 10400 Billings Road Live Oak, CA 95953 (800) 824-4932.

Premium Minnesota and California wild rice that is organically grown, without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides. Available in many grades, all delicious.

Goldmine Natural Food Company 3419 Hanc.o.c.k Street San Diego, CA 92110-4307 (800) 475-FOOD.

Organic and heirloom grains, rice, rolled oats, and a similar product line to Bob's Red Mill and The Grain and Salt Society.

Gourmet Rice/Ellis Stansel P.O. Box 206 Gueydan, LA 70542 (318) 536-6140.

Louisiana-grown long-grain white and brown aromatic rice under the moniker of Gourmet Popcorn Rice. A unique artisan rice bred from a basmati-type seed from Pakistan early last century.

The Grain and Salt Society 273 Fairway Drive Asheville, NC 28805 (800) TOP-SALT.

A great family-run company that specializes in organic and macrobiotic food products. Excellent Celtic Sea Salt, miso, tamari, umebos.h.i.+ plums, organic beans, quinoa, whole-grain rye and spelt, organic buckwheat kasha, pearled barley, organic long- and short-grain brown rices, organic white and brown basmati, and organic rolled oats.

Grain Millers 11100 NE Eighth, Suite 710 Bellevue, WA 98009 (800) 443-8972.

A great family-run company that specializes in organic rolled oats.

Hodgson Mill, Inc.

P.O. Box 430 Teutopolis, IL 62467 (800) 525-0177.

Hodgson is a well-known Midwest supermarket staple and produces a full line of stone-ground yellow and white cornmeal and grits, cracked wheat, bulgur wheat with soy grits, barley, golden lentils, black beans, and split peas out of their three milling sites. One of Beth's favorite sources for cornmeal.

India PlazaExcellent online source for basmati and other Indian white rices, curry powders and other spices, such as mustard seeds, dozens of dals, and Indian pickles and condiments.

The Baker's Catalogue (King Arthur Flour) P.O. Box 876 Norwich, VT 05055 (800) 827-6836.

Brinna Sands has built her mail-order catalog to offer the best for the home baker and a wide variety of equipment; dried fruit and coconut; dried Michigan tart cherries, blueberries, and raspberries; nuts and nut oils; chocolate and cocoa; vanilla products; citrus extracts; saffron; sugars; and spices. We recommend the entire line of King Arthur flours from unbleached to whole wheat.

La Cuisine 323 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (800) 521-1176.

Valhrona chocolate, cocoa powders, Tahitian vanilla beans and extracts, glaceed fruits, candied citrus peels, dried berries, sh.e.l.led pistachios, whole peeled hazelnuts. We like their India Tree sugars; we are hooked on the dark muscovado brown sugar.

Lotus Foods El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 525-3137.

or orExquisite domestic white and brown jasmine rice from Lowell Farms, Bhutanese red rice, Chinese Black Rice, Argentinean Carnaroli, and Kalijira baby basmati.

Lundberg Family Farms P.O. Box 369 Richvale, CA 95974 (916) 882-4551.

This is an excellent source for domestic brown and specialty rices. Lundberg offers Wehani, American white and brown basmati, j.a.ponica j.a.ponica short-grain black rice, short- and long-grain brown rices, and California white Arborio. They even sell a rice cooker. short-grain black rice, short- and long-grain brown rices, and California white Arborio. They even sell a rice cooker.

McCormick & Co. Food Service Mail Order 226 Schilling Circle Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (800) 322-SPICE.

You can purchase bulk spices, usually in one-pound containers. Almond, vanilla, and anise extracts.