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Origins.

Spice is agriculture before it is seasoning. Where it grew, when it was picked and how slowly it dried decide everything you taste.

Prototype provenance — sourcing detail is placeholder content.

Kerala, India

India

Kerala

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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Anatolia, Türkiye

Türkiye

Anatolia

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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Mediterranean, Southern Europe

Southern Europe

Mediterranean

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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Velora Kitchen, Blended in the UK

Blended in the UK

Velora Kitchen

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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