Resources
CALIFORNIA:
Carlson Food Equipment
50 Mendell, #12, San Francisco, CA 94124
telephone (415) 648-2601
Sausages and sausage-making equipment
Frieda’s by Mail
4465 Corporate Center Drive, Los Alamitos, CA 90720
telephone 800-421-9477
Web site: www.friedas.com
Wide spectrum of fresh and dried chiles, including chipotle and habanero
Herbs of Mexico
3903 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90023
telephone: 213-261-2521
website: www.herbsofmexico.com
Wide assortment of dried herbs and spices, such as epazote, Mexican tarragon.
MexGrocer.com
4060 Morena Blvd. suite C
San Diego, CA 9211
1.877.463.9476
Everything from home remedies, to tortilla presses, jewelry and all sort of Mexican ingredients and equiment. I don’t know how IA could’ve forgotten to include them –I did some work for them as the Aspen Food and Wine festival but they didn’t keep in touch.
Tierra Vegetables
13684 Chalk Hill Road, Healdsburg, CA 95448
telephone 707-837-8366, fax 888-784-3772
Locally grown and smoked chiles
Web Site: www.tierravegetables.com
Locally grown dried, and smoked chiles
Melissa’s Produce
PO BOX 21127
Los Angles, CA 90021
800-588-0151
www.melissas.com
CONNECTICUT:
Country Crafts & Gardens. L.L.C
P O Box 415
Madison, Ct. 06443,
Phones: (in Ct,) 800-643-4372, 860-663-2362.
Fax 860 663-1137
Robert Deitel
email: hydrofreshbob27@yahoo.com
Source for hoja santa
FLORIDA:
Burns Farms
1345 Bay Lake Loop, Groveland, FL 34736
telephone 352- 429-4048
Frozen huitlacoche year-round and fresh hoja santa in season.
MICHIGAN:
Zingerman’s
610 Phoenix Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
telephone 888-636-8162; fax 734-769-1620
www.zingermans.com
Great Spanish olive oils and Mexican vanilla beans
NEW JERSEY:
The CMC Company
P.O. Drawer 322, Avalon, NJ 08202
telephone 800-CMC-2780; fax 609-861-3065
Web Site: www.thecmccompany.com
Large selection of Mexican ingredients and equipment, though at high prices.
Carries cast-iron tortilla presses, dried avocado leaves, canela, epazote, shrimp, Mexican oregano.
Chile Today-Hot Tamale, Inc.
2-D Great Meadow Lane, East Hanover, NJ 07936
telephone 800-468-7377, fax 973-886-4118
Web Site: www.chiletoday.com
Chipotle, dried ancho and guajillo chiles
NEW MEXICO
Del Maguey, Single Village Mezcal
122 State Road 240 / P.O. Box 667, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico 87557
Telephone number 505 758 1211, fax 505-758 1978
Web Site: http://www.mezcal.com
Email: agave@mezcal.com
Co-producing organically with Oaxacan Zapotec Farmers since 1995. The Mother of all Mezcals and Tequilas. From the heart of the maguey, and the soul of the Village. (So pure, it may be used to prepare organic herbal infusions) Sip it. Don’t shoot it.
The Chile Guy
206 Frontage Road, Rio Rancho, New Mexico 81244
Telephone numbers 800-869-9218 or 505-891-0291, fax 505-891-8241
Web Site: www.chileguy.com
May be carrying some Veracruzan varieties of chiles, i. e. chile serrano seco and chile comapa
(also known as chile seco.) Wholesale only.
NEW YORK:
The Sausage Maker
1500 Clinton Street, Buffalo, NY 14206
telephone 716-824-6510
Sausage casings and sausage-making equipment
OHIO:
Companion Plants
7247 North Coolville Ridge Road Athens, Ohio 45701
Phone: (740) 592-4643; Fax: (614) 593-3092
Epazote seeds, Mexican oregano, Mexican tarragon, tomatillo seeds
Lehmans Non-Electric Catalog
One Lehman Circle, P.O. Box 41, Kidron, OH 44636
telephone 330-857-5757, fax 330-857-5785
Web Site: www.lehmans.com
Hand corn grinder
TEXAS
Melissa Guerra
P.O. Box 4510
Edinburg, TX 78540
Telephone: 877-875-2665 (Call anytime)
www.melissaguerra.com
Email: Melissa@melissaguerra.com
I just found a great new mail order site for traditional Mexican cooking implements like a comal, molcajete, corn grinder, tamal steamer, tortilla press, and wooden board and rolling pin for flour tortillas. Most exciting is that she also sells corn for masa and cal (calcium hydroxide).
Generation Farms
1109 North McKinney, Rice, Texas 75155
telephone 903-326-4263; fax: 903-326-6511
www.generationfarms.com
Fresh epazote and hoja santa. (1/2-pound minimum, but 1/4-pound if you order several herbs).
It’s About Thyme
11726 Manchaca Rd., Austin, Texas 78748
telephone 512-280-1192, fax 512-280-6356
Web Site: www.itsaboutthyme.com
Hoja santa and epazote plants
The Mozzarella Co.
2944 Elm St., Dallas, TX 75226
telephones 214-741-4072 and 800-798-2954, fax 214-741-4076
Web Site: www.mozzco.com
Queso blanco, queso fresco
Pendery’s
304 E. Belknap St., Fort Worth, TX 76102
telephone 817-332-3871
Web Site: www.penderys.com
Smoked chipotle, dried avocado leaves, epazote, and Mexican oregano
WISCONSIN:
Penzey’s Ltd.
933 Muskego, WI 53150
telephone 800-741-7787; fax 262-679-7878
web site: www.penzeys.com
Canela (ask for Ceylon or soft-stick cinnamon), dried epazote and Mexican oregano, and chipotle chiles.
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