Pantry guide
Best Celery seed for home cooking
What Celery seed is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The Old Bay backbone and the Eastern European soup-spice.
In the International Cuisines books, Celery seed is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Celery seed before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.