![]() One of Claire’s wisdom teeth is displayed in the shop as decoration somehow it doesn’t look out of place. Her store is a curiosity cabinet stocked with familiar and unfamiliar herbs, spices, and accessories from New England and way beyond-Greek mastic, Maine sea salt, Madagascar wild voatsiperifery pepper, mortars and pestles, pepper grinders. In India, turmeric-infused milk, or Haldi Milk, is a comforting beverage that dates back centuries. Presiding over this ceremony was the gently smiling Claire Cheney, who founded Curio in 2015 and opened it as a brick-and-mortar shop a year later. Turmeric is a fragrant, golden spice related to ginger. Most common in Japan as a counterpoint to sweet, fatty unagi, sansho is not well known in the U.S, at least for now. Our original blends are fresh, fragrant and healthy. ![]() It’s Curio’s mission to help provide a better life for spice growers around the world, protect the environment, and unite people around food. As a child when I’d come home from boarding school during the summer, the large courtyard in our family home would be abuzz with smells and sounds of preserving, rolling and pounding, inducing many sneezes as we darted through playing tag. Theyre also working to improve the lives of farmers and add value to our. Introducing Garam Masala Spice Blend in Collaboration with Curio Spice Co. It was sansho pepper, the electrifying Japanese cousin of Szechuan pepper, which tingles taste buds with bright, citrusy heat. Curio Spice Company, based in Somerville, MA buys its spices directly from farmers whenever possible, paying a fair trade price. Curio Spice specialize in rare and hard-to-find spices, tools and culinary gifts. “It’s like Szechuan Froot Loops!” offered another. “It’s like stars on my tongue!” someone exclaimed. But then a new jar circulated and, one by one, like a string of old Christmas lights illuminating bulb-by-bulb, everyone’s facial expression changed: eyebrows arched, eyes widened. Many of the offerings were familiar to the group: they work together at Oleana, one of the country’s foremost Middle Eastern restaurants, and they know their coriander from their cardamom. stood in a semi-circle and passed around small jars of spices. On a Monday morning last fall in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of inquisitive visitors to Curio Spice Co.
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