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Letters from the harvest.
Field notes, harvest letters, and the occasional recipe. Quiet writing from the people growing, processing, and weighing what we sell.
Field Notes02 May 2026
A morning at the Vanamoolika cooperative
Six in the morning, the kashayam pots are already on. We sit on the courtyard floor, and Suma chechi tells us why this batch of chyawanprash will be honest.
Spice Trade21 Apr 2026
Tellicherry, and the peppercorn that funded fleets
How a single Malabar grading scale — TGSEB — turned Indian black pepper into a global benchmark, and what the older traders understood that the modern shelf has forgotten.
Heritage03 Apr 2026
St. Thomas, the Malabar coast, and a name worth keeping
How a 2,000-year-old merchant identity became a quiet pact between buyer and seller — and why we still think it matters.
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