This Oakland Shop Changed the Way Home Cooks Think About Spices
John Beaver recalls trying to find a local spice shop when he first moved to Oakland in the late 2000s. A quick Google search yielded only one result: “Spice Bazaar,” a fictional storefront from the 2006 romantic drama Mistress of Spices, which had been filmed in Old Oakland.
In the real world, Bay Area home cooks mostly had to settle for the supermarket spice aisle. At the time, Beaver recalls, the handful of spice businesses in the Bay Area mostly only sold very large quantities, or had a more medicinal focus.
“As far as a place that would grind and blend the spices in-house, as far as I…
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