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Mid January Discount
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January is a busy month for the food trade, seems like its a month all about going to work and cooking food - our favourite subjectKeeping it simple and quick, we hope everyone enjoys the flavours, Steve and the Spice Team
This weeks discount code isPureSpices25Good for 1 use per customer, expires 26th Jan
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28th Mar 2026
African Spices Newsletter and Discount Code
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We were grinding an East African pepper blend the other day and it reminded me of a question we get asked a lot — can you source more African spices?
Sometimes we can. Quite often we can’t, and it’s usually not down to a lack of quality or care at source. A lot of it comes down to modern food regulations. In some regions the soil is naturally high
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28th Mar 2026
New Year Discount Code
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Across Europe, food traditions have outlasted borders, rulers, and religions. Empires shifted, beliefs changed, calendars were rewritten — yet people continued to gather at the turn of the year to share familiar food with family and friends. New Year moments have always been used to affirm hope, steady the spirit, and strengthen the bonds between generations.Long be
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28th Mar 2026
End of Year Discount Code
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The year may be closing, but in fields and gardens across the world, the work is already beginning again. As winter settles in, seeds are chosen, beds are prepared, and patient hands plan for the flavours yet to come. Many of the spices we treasure begin their next journey now: soil turned, seedlings started, roots strengthened quietly beneath the surface. This is t
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28th Mar 2026
Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays
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Everyone here wishes you a Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays and a flavoursome New YearWe are closing Tuesday 23rd, dispatching again Monday 29th and 30th, Closed New Years Eve and back 2nd JanuaryNext Discount Code will be sent Saturday 27thHave a warm, aromatic flavoursome week ahead, Steve and The Spice Team
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28th Mar 2026
Part 3 of The Spice Advent Trilogy
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The Third Door: Comfort in a Bowl
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The Third Door: Stillness After Celebration
After the feasting comes the stillness. Northern Europe has always kept a tender spot for the quiet days that follow celebration — a return to candlelight, soft spices and simple bowls that warm more than the hands that hold them.
Nordic kitchens settle into rice porridge sprinkled with ci
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28th Mar 2026
Part 2 of The Spice Advent Trilogy
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The Second Door: Feasts That Bind Us
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The Third Door: Feast of Mid-Advent
By mid-Advent, the quiet anticipation gives way to something fuller. Medieval Europe adored a winter feast — partly for survival, partly for spectacle — and spices sat at the centre of it. Nutmeg, saffron, pepper and clove travelled from far-off ports into Nordic longhouses and British gr
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28th Mar 2026
The Spice Advent Trilogy Part 1
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The First Door: Aromas of Anticipation
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The First Door: Aromas of Anticipation
As November folds into December, you can almost feel the shift. The cold sharpens, the days shorten, and suddenly the kitchen becomes the warmest place in the house. Long before Christmas as we know it, the peoples of Northern Europe marked this moment with fire, evergreen branches and the first
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28th Mar 2026
Last Discount Code for the Month
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As the cold creeps in and we all start reaching for blankets and hot mugs, there’s one root that has followed humanity through winter for thousands of years: ginger. Long before it scented our biscuits and warmed our teas, ginger was a travelling companion of sailors, healers and traders. It’s believed to have originated in the lush forests of Southeast Asia, where it wa
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28th Mar 2026
Discount Code for a week of Cloves
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Cloves first appear in recorded history in the Han dynasty courts of China, around the 3rd century BCE. Courtiers were asked to chew them before addressing the emperor — a small detail that tells us just how precious and far-travelled these little spice buds already were. Considering they grow naturally only in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, it means cloves had c
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28th Mar 2026