Collection: Chili <tc>pepper</tc>

We specialize in peppercorns, but we don't shy away from chili peppers. You'll find pure chili peppers from the French Basque Country, for example. Since 2016, we've been selling Piment d'Espelette from Aïnhoa, a town on the Spanish-French border. This Espelette is a coarsely ground 'powder' harvested by hand, processed into the powder (Piment d'Espelette), into a puree and a tasty jelly, entirely in line with the culinary traditions of the French Basque Country.

Chili pepper is also incorporated into some of our blends: the Japanese togarashi chili in Shichimi, the Indian teja pepper in Punjabi masala, the kashmiri chili in Kashmiri masala, the smoked jalapeño chili in our Adobo chipotle and Aleppo chili (pul biber) in Baharat.

The newest chili addition to our range is the to notice or merquén, the diplomatic, and indeed strategic, response of the Chilean Mapuche to the violent conquest of their land by the conquistadors, the combination of their goat-horn chili and the coriander and cumin brought from Europe. One of the classic examples of the 'Columbian exchange' of products and customs from the Old and New Worlds.