Food Fact | Bay Leaves

I have a strange thing about bay leaves -- I don’t like to cook with dried bay leaves in dishes that they're meant to be eaten. I feel like dried bay leaves would be too unappetizing to chew. So, I buy fresh bay leaves if they’re required to be eaten. Strange? I don’t know. I decided to look into bay leaves a bit more, because no one really questions ‘why’ when it comes to bay leaves.

Marketplace | Saraga International Grocery

Location | 3605 Commercial Drive  Indianapolis, IN

This place is the Disney World of international food. I don't even think there's anything remotely like this in LA. I think it's because LA has a lots of different neighborhoods and people are pretty isolated in their respective ethnic villages - Chinatown, Little Armenia, Thai Town, Little Tokyo, Little Ethiopia. I feel like if someone could get some square footage in DC, where people are forced to live amongst each other, this place would make a killing. It has most everything you can imagine from anywhere on earth (with the exception of passion fruit concentrate). I can get Ting by the case here, so I'll always be loyal.