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Spice is agriculture before it is seasoning. Where it grew, when it was picked and how slowly it dried decide everything you taste.
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India
The home of extraordinary pepper.
Pepper vines climb shade trees in the Western Ghats and ripen slowly in monsoon humidity. Late picking and slow sun-drying are what give a Tellicherry-style grade its size, its citrus lift and its long resinous finish.
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Cambodia
Floral pepper from red-soil plains.
Kampot-style pepper is known for a lighter, more perfumed character than most black pepper — floral and mineral rather than purely hot.
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White pepper, water-cured.
White pepper is the same berry with its skin removed after soaking. The process trades citrus top notes for earth, gentle fermentation and a rounder heat.
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Nepal
Grapefruit in a peppercorn.
Timut is a Sichuan-family berry rather than true pepper. Its aroma is startlingly close to grapefruit peel, with a light tingling finish.
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Numbing citrus husks.
Only the outer husk is used. It delivers citrus aroma and the tingling má sensation that defines much of Sichuan cooking.
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Sri Lanka
True cinnamon, hand-rolled.
Ceylon cinnamon is peeled from young shoots, layered and rolled by hand into paper-fine quills. It is delicate where cassia is loud — sweet, floral and citrus-edged rather than hot.
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The boldest cinnamon of all.
Saigon cinnamon is a cassia with unusually high volatile oil. It is sweet, hot and assertive — the flavour most people picture when they think of cinnamon.
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The isle of spice.
Nutmeg falls when the fruit splits on the tree, dries in open barns for weeks, then is cracked by hand to release the seed and its lace of mace.
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Clove country.
Clove buds are picked just before they open and dried until they darken. Handled well they are sweet and warm rather than medicinal.
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Iran
A harvest measured in mornings.
Crocus flowers open before dawn and are picked the same morning. Only the three red stigmas are kept. A gram is a field's worth of patience.
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Türkiye
Sun-dried chillies and tart red fruit.
Aleppo- and Urfa-style chillies are dried differently — one bright and fruity, the other sweated overnight until dark, raisined and faintly smoky. Sumac grows on the same hillsides.
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Smoke, cocoa and dried fruit.
Ancho is a dried poblano; chipotle is a smoked, dried jalapeño. Both carry more flavour than heat.
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Sun-dried, deseeded, coarsely milled.
Gochugaru is dried in the sun and milled coarse. It is fruity and sweet with a gentle warmth that builds rather than bites.
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Southern Europe
Hillside herbs, slow-dried.
Oregano, thyme and rosemary dried whole-leaf in shade keep their oils. Rubbed between the palms at the pan they smell like the hillside.
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Blended in the UK
House formulas, ground to order.
Our blends are built from the same catalogue you can buy jar by jar, milled in small runs so they arrive at full aroma.
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