Our New Favorite Cookies at A & A Spice

We can’t get enough of these Galil honey cookies that we picked up for $2.29 at a little gourmet grocery store called A & A Spice at 532 Court Street — down on the south side of Carroll Gardens (between Huntington and 9th Streets). The cookies, which are imported from Israel, look like they’d be hard and dry — we only bought a bag because we were low on cash but felt guilty about leaving the friendly shop empty-handed — but they’re actually very soft and sweet, and reminded us of homemade molasses cookies. (And according to the nutrition label, 4 to 5 of them only contain 90 calories and 1g of fat!) A & A Spice isn’t stocked as heavily as the average bodega, but what they lack in quantity, they make up for in quality. They carry a solid selection of dried fruit and nuts, as well as harder-to-find items for local foodies, like tamarind concentrate, black caraway seeds, and cornichons.