On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:25:33 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

> I don't know about whole celery seed and ground celery seed. A lot of
> ground spices go stale pretty quickly. Sometimes it seems worthwhile to
> grind your own. Sometimes it isn't. My father had a "pepper" grinder
> devoted to fennel seeds.

I use the Penzey's ground fennel seeds quite a bit. Very good in
Harry's tomato sauce.

Carol