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1. Essential cooking store or website?
Surfas -- for cooking and baking products. [SurfasLosAngeles.com]
2. Money-saving ingredient?
Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Bean Paste -- the happiest medium between extract, which can sometimes have that alcohol taste, and beans, which are time consuming and really expensive. [buy it]
3. Ingredient that can really make a difference in baking?
Salt -- like an Oscar-winning supporting actor: it's there not to make the dish salty, but to bring out all of the other flavors.
4. Pastry place that should be on our radar?
Carol's Cookies -- they make my favorite chocolate chip cookie, besides my own. [CarolsCookies.com]
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