Element Spice and The Indian Kitchen

Greetings everyone, this is first entry in the ELEMENT SPICE culinary blog!

While many of the entries will relate specifically to the spice compounds made by ELEMENT SPICE, there will also be various culinary topics and musings. ELEMENT SPICE, as a concept, was born out of Robert's experience living in India, on and off, for the past couple of years. While participating in the new Indian economy, I found myself enraptured with the Indian way of eating and cooking. I took cooking classes in Delhi, visited a spice plantation in Goa, a tea plantation near Ooty in Tamil Nadu (Kaikatty Indco Collective), and spice markets in Cochin, Kerala, including the world's last remaining pepper exchange. The way that Indians use spice is quite an art form, and heck, they were the original reason that foreigners traveled there. Sail an empty ship to India, fill the holds with spice, and if you made it back, you were rich!