My good friend in India, Mr. Divakar (aka Mr. D), shipped me the jar of peppercorns in the photo. A business was born. Or, more accurately, a product was launched in search of a business.
Over the years, one by one, we discovered spices as special as our extraordinary pepper. Orders from Michelin Star and James Beard award-winning chefs rolled in. We knew we were onto something.
Today, we’re proud to give you access to the exact same spice lots that we supply to our award-winning chefs.
One of the secrets to our success is that each of our spices is personally selected at the source and brought in fresh and direct in small batches. We don’t buy from middlemen where spices sit and get stale.
Let’s just say that I can definitively tell you that Peter Piper didn’t pick a peck of Tellicherry Peppercorns. Parag Patel did.
We also have some of the nicest looking, best operating salt and pepper mills around.
We only sell mills with top of the line CrushGrind ceramic mechanisms. No metal gears. Smooth as all get out.
Is your mill worth its salt? Or Tellicherry pepper?
And last, but not least, we’re excited to have just started weaving a brand new Reluctant chapter – Aprons.
Over 15 years ago, I met Mr. D. in India while making textiles for my old business. Well, life just came full circle.
We are now producing beautiful, affordable, cotton canvas aprons for professional and home chefs on 100 year-old handlooms in Mr. D’s hometown. They make wonderful gifts, too.
In my bio on the site, I said that I’m a closet singer songwriter, but I’ve yet to write a song about salt and pepper. Well, guess what, I started the song.
I’ve searched the world, and I can say
There are no spices any better
It’s all I think about, day and night
Now my hair is salt and pepper
