Saturday, February 22, 2025

Strawberry's - a Treasure Trove of Mexican Herbs and Spices

 My core shopping area relative to my own apartment and also for the cooking classes at St. Helena's is what I call the Starling Avenue Triangle, which is formed by three supermarkets,

  1. Chang - Li on Benedict Avenue, across the street from St. Helena's.
  2. Key Foods on Unionport Avenue
  3. And what used to be Pioneer, but it is now SuperFresh at 1345 Castle Hill Avenue.
In between lies a Mecca for food shopping with the whole range of South Asian flavors, mostly Bangladeshi, with some Indian thrown in for good measure.

Some of the outliers are a WestIndian store by Castle Hill Station, and an African Store, as well as another Bangladeshi supermarket on Castle Hill Avenue, and then two Mexican stores that are a bit further out:

  1. Frutas Y Vegetales La Reyna at 1300/1302 Beach Avenue, Corner Westchester Avenue
  2. Strawberry Farm, at 2403A Westchester Ave, between Zerega Avenue and Rowland Street, which is not exclusively Mexican, but they have a veritable  treasuire trove of Mexican herbs and spices. Recommended!
I leave just the photographic evidence here:












They had three kinds of Mexican Oregano, just leaves in two forms, or with the stems, to make tea when you have a cold or the flu.














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