218955 Fri Feb 11 10:27:05 -0800 2005 9 18 Manhattan 0 1165654 What is the best brand or place to buy black licorice.. Anyone have a favorite? Fri Feb 11 10:27:05 -0800 2005 0 Dano 1 1165656 Black licorice is the only food I loathe. But I believe they have some at Elk Candy on 2nd Ave. Give them a call. It's a great candy store, in any case. Specializing in marzipan. Fri Feb 11 10:40:08 -0800 2005 1165654 0 Nina W. 1 1165667 The best licorice comes from Norway and Holland. You either have to go to the shops in Bay Ridge which have maintained their Norwegian ties or you'll have to find a Dutch specialty shop. The only place I know that carries a wide variety of great black licorice is in Wantage, NJ. There are websites that import the good stuff, tho. Fri Feb 11 11:10:02 -0800 2005 1165654 0 bystander99 1 1165677 Economy Candy in Lower East Side carries some varieties of high end black licorice. Fri Feb 11 11:27:30 -0800 2005 1165654 0 wurstle 1 1165680 i like Panda. not sure how genuine it is, but it is yummy, i've eaten it for years. you can get it at Whole Foods but I've seen in in many places in NYC. it is quite soft. i've had the salty kind in Sweden, and I've seen it here, but it was too ammonia-y for me, though i generally like salty candy. i also like little licorice candies, more like breath mints, you can get at a Thai grocers in Chinatown. btw, and i sometimes think i am the only person on the planet who says "licor-ISS", not "licor-ISH" thought i am usually pleased to occationally encounter others who pronounce it like me. maybe it's a car-a-mel/ car-mel thing (me,the former of course!) ;-) Fri Feb 11 11:42:08 -0800 2005 1165654 0 mondaybox 1 1165696 My husband has a thing for the salt licorice and searched the city, websites etc. without success. I believe that I posted a request for it on chowhound last year and learned that they have it at Dean and Deluca. I assume that because they had the salt they have a large selection of black licorice. Fri Feb 11 12:11:30 -0800 2005 1165654 0 amym 2 1165710 It's off topic here, but as I mentioned below, Holland-American Bakery in Wantage, NJ, carries a pretty wide variety of licorice, including salt licorice in different forms and salt salmiak. Holland-America has a website. I hesitate to bring it up here not just because it's OT. I also don't want to find the place overrun with weekenders. :-) Fri Feb 11 13:16:44 -0800 2005 1165696 0 bystander99 1 1165824 the australian black licorice available at russ and daughters is very good and unique. to describe it, it's soft, sweet, flavorable..... i was just on the upper west side today and really missed that licorice shop which was on the 80s somewhere... Fri Feb 11 22:56:39 -0800 2005 1165654 0 babar ganesh 2 1165828 The store you're thinking about was across the street from Zabars. When the owner sold it, he started a mail order business selling licorice from his home on Long Island. Later he sold that business to some people from Nebraska. Their business is called Licorice International and you can find them online at the URL below. Link: http://www.licoriceinternational.com/ Fri Feb 11 23:17:35 -0800 2005 1165824 0 BluPlateSpec 1 1804598 I love black licorice and found this site which not only offers a huge variety of European black licorice, but also offers free samples (with a $2.00 shipping charge). http://www.dutchsweets.com/licorice.php A handful of the same brands & types of licorice that Dutch Sweets carries are available locally at the wonderful Economy Candy down on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side at much better prices, so you might drop by and check them out. I'm headed down there myself tomorrow to get a black licorice fix. Sun Aug 13 00:35:43 -0700 2006 1165654 14335 pkallan