If your favorite place is in the kitchen or if you like to skip processed foods and go for fresh then you need to shop here. Penzey's does one thing and the do it with excellence-SPICES!! They have small jars, large jars, or envelopes of each spice. Every time I go in I find something new. Each spice has a jar that you can open to smell and to look at. There is a card with ideas of what to use the spice for. That's helpful for someone like me. You can make up gift boxes for friends or family. They have baking spices too. There are two types of vanilla beans. They have vanilla in a bottle as well as a double potent vanilla. They have a couple of different kinds of cinnamon and cocoas. The choices are endless, but they are all good choices.