Next grind · Monday 10 November
Spices that still smell like the place they grew.
Pestlewick buys whole spices straight from 41 growers, grinds them every Monday in small lots and stamps the date on every tin. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for you.
41
growers paid ahead
7 days
from mill to door
$45
free shipping from
Batch 214 · Urfa Biber
Ground on 03.11.26
Tasted & packed by hand
Şanlıurfa
La Vera
Galle
Idukki
Torbat-e Heydarieh
Gaziantep
Kerala
Guangxi
Rajasthan
Réunion
This week at the mill
Freshly ground, stamped and ready to ship
The grind calendar
We never grind ahead. Here is this week at the mill.
Order by Sunday night and your tin is filled from the Monday batch. Whole spices ship any day.
MON
Chillies & paprika
Urfa, Aleppo, smoked paprika
Milling
TUE
Seeds
Cumin, coriander, fennel
Queued
WED
Barks & warm spice
Cinnamon, nutmeg, clove
Queued
THU
House blends
Za’atar, baharat, ras el hanout
Queued
FRI
Pack & dispatch
Every tin stamped and sealed
Queued
Blend Builder
Weigh out your own blend, gram by gram.
Pick up to eight spices, set the grams and watch the jar fill in layers. We grind it on Monday and print your name for it on the label.
Weighed to the gram, from 5 g up
Your blend name printed on the lid
Ground fresh in the next Monday batch
The Drawer
A small box of fresh spice, every month or two
From the journal
Recipes, origins and notes from the mill
Craft
5 min
Why we grind on Mondays
Ground spice loses most of its aroma within weeks. Here is how our weekly grind keeps every tin close to the mill.
Recipe
6 min
Roasted squash with Urfa butter
Brown butter, a spoon of Urfa biber and a squeeze of lemon. The easiest autumn side dish we know.
Origins
8 min
Dawn in the saffron fields
Each flower gives three threads, and they have to be picked before the sun opens it. A morning with the Rahimi family.