[{"id":242889490615,"handle":"all","title":"Everything","updated_at":"2023-09-27T18:05:22-07:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2021-01-26T09:30:28-08:00","sort_order":"alpha-asc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"variant_inventory","relation":"greater_than","condition":"1"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2021-12-05T12:35:52-08:00","alt":"","width":500,"height":750,"src":"\/\/bucksspices.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/everything.png?v=1675287101"}},{"id":388802969848,"handle":"featured","title":"Featured Products","updated_at":"2023-09-27T17:40:10-07:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eDid you know that we are one of the oldest spice stores in America! We're very proud of this fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe look far and wide for delicious, fresh, interest products and are very happy to offer many interesting and unique things for the intelligent chef, shown here. 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Hand gathered pine pollen. The taste is mild, pleasant, and, almost a bit cheesy and yeasty. It's not unpleasant. There's also the texture. Pollen has a sort of not-unpleasant granular quality to it that you'll be able to pick out eventually in things that you make, it's a special quality, and part of what makes it special.
