How Spice Company Spice And All Things Nice Aims To Develop Healthy Food Products
How Spice Company Spice And All Things Nice Aims To Develop Healthy Food Products. Spice and All Things Nice is a Spice company based in trendy Salt River in Cape Town. The company manufactures and distributes artisanal curry pastes, powders, flavoured rices, cous cous, quinoas, poppadums, sprinkles, mueslis, smoothies and curry kits. It is also in the business of developing a meal kit which will have two to three recipe cards in it along with the relevant ingredients.
Only the finest spices/ingredients are used in all of the company’s products as the products are hand made and contain no preservatives, additives or added sugar. Spice And All Things Nice’s product categories include Balti, Indian, Cape Malay, Thai, Moroccan and Middle Eastern cuisines. The company’s philosophy is to make cooking healthy, fun and convenient as all of its products have ‘easy to use’ recipes on them.
Spice and All things nice was started by Gillian Downes. After a brief trip to the UK to study macrobiotics, she became captivated by the spice markets in Oxford. She also fell in love with the Balti houses in and around London. On her return to SA she decided to start experimenting with making her own Balti Curry pastes. She bought a Balti recipe book and the relevant spices and taught herself the ancient ritual of curry paste making. She made the Balti curry for friends and family and as they say, the rest is history.
It all started off in her mum’s kitchen in Newlands with two staff members. Her parents supported her vision every step of the way even if they had to tolerate the smells of curry aromas in every crevice of the house. With them both being entrepreneurs themselves, this came naturally. Today the factory is based in Salt River and the Spice team is made up of a wonderful team of ladies (and one gentleman).
