Back to Samosir.
We returned to Sumatra to celebrate 10 years with Kiki and the growers behind Batak pepper and Cabe Merah chili. One of the partnerships closest to our hearts.
We love to cook. We love to eat. We love gathering around a meal. For us ingredients are essential. Spices are essential. Flavor is essential. So how come some of our food still lacked that final dazzle?
This question has taken us on a decade long journey to the very essence of flavor itself. To the source of all of those ingredients and spices we use everyday. An obsession of knowledge and quality. And it is on this quest we have started discovering the answer.
Flavor comes alive through the sizzling melting pot of cooking, botany, traditions, history and geography. Spices are of the land and from people who have dedicated their life to cultivation. The devotion to tend, harvest and ennoble a living organism. From nurture to harvest to drying to packaging. From here the rest is up to us, the culinarians.
The Pepper Quest is our way to pay homage and share one of nature's greatest gifts; flavor.
So happy to be doing it alongside you.
//Elsa & Adrian
SOURCING
Finding the source gives the opportunity to know who actually picks the spices we sell, where they grow and how they are cultivated.
SINGLE ORIGIN
Our spices are selected from small farmer communities or single estates to ensure quality, relations and preserving heirloom varieties.
COMMUNITY
The devotion and knowledge of our stakeholders is the key ingredient in what we do. Our coordinators, partner farmers, and you, our customers.
HARVEST
Respectful, proper methods of harvest and preparing spices directly after harvest season, is vital for taste, aroma and freshness.
Just tasted your spices and WOW!
I felt like the food critic in the end scene of Ratatouille.
Like being transported to another world. Thank you!
Journal
Follow our learning journey to find single origin spices around world
