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Originally Posted by Lady TS
So...would ya'll consider Frontier's cinnamon to be inferior (talking Ceylon if they have it ) to the "spice house" ones? The Simply Organic(from Frontier) are jarred, but the Frontier from the hfs is bagged in foil bags and they stock as needed.
No spice house near here that I am aware of, though I'd love to visit one. Our hfs has that "smell" to it b/c of all the herbs and spices they stock.
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Yes, I absolutely would consider Penzeys/Spice House far superior. Frontier doesn't specialize in spices specifically, they focus on offering a wide array of products. Does Frontier have direct contact with the spice growers or do they go through a middle man(men) for their spices? The Spice House (for example) has almost daily shipments of various spices and contracts with growers directly world-wide. Their entire business is spices, nothing but spices, and they are smaller and family-owned (Penzeys and Spice House are owned by different family members and are different companies, but are related in terms of how they function in procuring and selling spices. I have found their quality to be comparable). With P/TSH there is no long period of sitting in a warehouse where the flavors dissipate.