I know I posted about this store a few years back but I can't help but write about Kalustyans again. Another one of my favorite spots in New York. When I go to Kalustyans I cant help but go a little crazy. It can be dangerous.
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If you like to cook Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine, then you know how important fresh spices are to making your dishes taste good. You certainly can’t get fresh ground spices at the average supermarket because they hold onto stuff for years at a time and by then, they’ve lost all their pungency and their essential oils have dried up or gone rancid.
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What a difference one store away makes! Foods of India is horrible (at least for customer service) - but run right next door to Kaustyan's, where they have, among a million other nationalities, Turkish and Greek sweets like Baklava. Gawd, not another culture to eat through! Where can it end? Well, dive into the munchies here, they're really nice and different.
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Quick note...Happened by Kalustyan's this morning. It's on Lexington in Curry Hill. If you live in NYC, or visiting for that matter and don't know Kalustyan's, it's not my fault anymore. They have everything Indian and Middle Eastern you could ever want. They have 66 varieties of Lentils and Dal alone. Check out the gourmet sub-continental section of their website. Very impressive.
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The famous Kalustyan's is known for its never ending walls of spices, beans, imported items and the like. I love living a stone's throw from it and always take friends visiting from other countries as well as other sections of Manhattan to see it for themselves. It's also a place of many firsts. My first Kaffir Lime Leaves, my first golden almonds, my first red colour for tandoori chicken, my first garam masala and the list goes on.
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If you're wandering around Curry Hill in search of some chana masala, you might be sidetracked by the orange lights of Kalustyan's Masala Café. Although you won't find your beloved North Indian favorites there, you will experience a magical meal of exotic spices and unusual flavors. (And you may have many questions for the waiters regarding the ingredients!)
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The dim and dusty stretch of Lexington Avenue just north of 23rd Street is chock full of friendly, cabbie-crowded Indian dive joints. But it was—until now— missing a more welcoming place for the neighborhood and beyond to come and eat authentic Indian fare tweaked for a New York crowd.
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