Olive Market

Beautiful little market with the most friendly people working there. I love the complementary recipes and the great cooking advise. The selection is similar to other stores in the area however the extra little touches will bring me back to the Olive Market. I received a free little sample of a Mediterranean cooking sauce and had great fun talking and laughing. It on the Miracle Mile and parking is plentiful. The store carries many gluten free baking products like chickpea flour and a variety of rice flours. The delicate rose water cookies are heavenly however not g.f.

In Farsi, the same word is used to say «lemon» and «lime,» which explains this evening’s conversation with the proprietor of this immaculate new Mediterranean/​Middle Eastern market:
ME: «Do you think this could be used in place of dried lime?» (asked while holding up a cellophane wrapped package reading «dried lemon» in English followed by Farsi).:
HIM: «It may BE dried lime»
ME: «Huh??»
I felt like I was spinning on a mobius strip.
Whether my dried lemon turns out to actually be dried lime remains to be seen, but there’s a lot of other things to see here: Shelves lined with colorful fresh fruits (limes?!), and vegetables (eggplants and more), rosewater, hummus, tea, grape leaves, cured meats, yogurt drinks, pomegranate molasses, rice, falaffel mixes, and all sorts of other things that I hope to someday figure out what to do with.
It makes me want to pull out my Arabic and Mediterranean cookbooks and plan my next gourmet night.
Welcome, Olive Market! Khosh Amadid!