Cream scalloped bowls, set of six
Six deep bowls with a scalloped rim and forty years of wear along the edge.
$30
Home garden spice tin
$26
Seven whole spices out of one garden, none of them ground.
Materials & dimensions
- Cinnamon, cardamom, clove, black pepper, nutmeg, mace, fenugreek
- Food-safe steel tin with seven compartments
13 × 4 × 13 cm · 320 g
Care
Dark cupboard, lid on, nowhere near the stove. Grind what you need and no more. Never store it above the hob, however convenient that is.
Shipping & duties
Home garden spice tin cannot be posted to United States. Its plant material is held at the border. Everything else in the shop ships there normally.
Import duties and taxes are set by United States, not by us. They are not included above, and your carrier collects them on delivery.
The story
Everything in this tin grew within sight of the house at Kosgoda: cinnamon, cardamom, clove, black pepper, nutmeg, mace and fenugreek. Nutmeg and mace come off the same fruit — the nut is the seed, the mace is the scarlet lace wrapped around it — which is a thing most people learn from a spice tin rather than a book.
Nothing here is ground. Ground spice is convenient and it starts dying the moment it is milled; the volatile oils that carry the smell are gone inside a few months. Whole, in the dark, these will still be worth using in three years. That is the entire argument for buying spice this way, and it is a good one.
Chandra sorts and fills these at the kitchen table. The tin holds roughly forty grams across the seven compartments, which sounds small until you have used a whole clove.
Chandra Kumari
Kosgoda, Southern Province · working since 1997
