Run Don't Walk

Your Author, ever on the hunt for only the most authentic ingredients, while sojourning in the darkest part of Los Angeles, spied a new wholesale spice shop specializing in chiles (mistranslated and thus misspelled chili) from across the globe.

I post this pix of the exotic Peruvian ají amarillo.

Yellow as the Sun

I paid but $6 for a whole pound. 

Spice Bodega

1244 E. 8th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90021

213-623-3430

Praxedes Hernandez, Prop.

This is the Los Angeles wholesale produce district.

Pollo a la Brasa, here we come!