Italian spices
 

I lived in Italy for about 5 years and became accustomed to buying Italian spices. I'm just about out of my favorite, peperoncini. Does anybody know how I can buy some more (or where)? Thank you!

Hi
I thought pepperoncini were actual little peppers.
Anyway, try Penzeys for spices and flavorings.

I've always seen the small, bright green salad peppers that have peperoncini on the bottle but when I purchased some vegetable seeds from Italy for my garden, the package for the red bell peppers said peperoncini.

sandi, I think they come in a range of colors
Just not familiar with them as a spice.
:)

I thought they were peppers too. Perhaps the spice is made of ground dried peppers?

What I meant was, I thought it was those specific small spicy peppers I see in bottles until I got my pepper seeds.

Pepperoncini are bell peppers. Probably if in a spice bottle they are ground peppers.

aclareb, have you tried Google to see if you can find a resource for this?

it was the first ever posting, maybe he/she thought this was epicurious.com
:)

My parents were born in Italy, and peperoncini are pickled peppers. loveitaly may be right, maybe you bought the grind up peppers , like cayenne. Herbs are the green part of a plant, spices are the seeds or grinded parts of them.
I hope this helps.

And peperoni means red or green bell peppers. A fantastic piazza is with mushrooms (funghi) e peperoni on the thin piazza crust baked in a true Italian pizza oven. Oh heavens, I wish I could be eating one right now!!!

Are you going to travel to our neighborhoods to buy them, or would you indicate where YOU live, so people who live near you can tell you where they find them?

You might try www.spicehouse.com. Haven't looked at the catalog in a while but they ought to be worth a try. If they don't have them, I bet they'll know where.

Peperoni are big, sweet bell peppers, red, yellow, or green (and not a form of sausage to put on a pizza).

Peperoncini are small, moderately spicy red peppers which can be used fresh or dried. In dried form they can be either whole or crumbled into little flakes and seeds. What's sold in bottles as Cayenne pepper in the US is either identical or close enough that you won't notice the difference.

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I don't think aclareb cares much at this point,
but not everyone agrees that pepperoncini have to be green or pickled

see
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/pepperoncini.htm

Sorry, I got busy with life for awhile :) I do care, in fact I grew my own pepperoncini this summer, dehydrated them and ground them. I never bought them pickled. I did contact the company I bought them from, and apparently they have a distributor in Chicago. I live in Omaha, Nebraska and I just thought it would great to be able to buy it again...remaining memories from Italy and all...

Here in New York City what we call "peperoncino" (singular) are flakes and seeds of red mildly spicy peppers. You can find them in any supermarket or Italian market. Not sure where you live but they are pretty common.

My husband loves Pepperoncini and they are the little spicy peppers...they are Pickled Peppers :)

Yes, supermarkets in the US also sell pickled domestic peppers called "peperoncini" but the OP was referring to a spice, not a pickled foodstuff.

eskrunchy, I thought pepperoncini were peppers. Pickled and is salads or sandwhiches etc.

What is the spice? Red Pepper flakes?

Never mind :D