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I recently went to India for a month of travel and exploring. Not the easiest country to visit for someone in their 60s, but it was still well worth it. My husband and I had signed up for an evening with a local, learning to cook Indian food in their home. (We went through Traveling Spoon for our reservations.) Anyway, it was a lot of fun! Our hosts were wonderful and the food was so delicious!

One thing that the cook had in her kitchen was a round, lidded, tin, filled with little cups of spices, and small spoons for dispensing the herbs. Very simple. It held about 6, or 7 spices. From then on, I was on the hunt to find one and I did, in Jaipur. (Later, I saw them everywhere throughout India.) I bought one for me and one for my daughter. I also bought an amazing array of very fresh spices to go in it.

Now that I'm home, I'm using the tin every day. It makes it so easy! No more running back and forth from the pantry, opening jars and plastic bags with wet, cooking fingers, etc. I just open the tin before I start cooking and spoon out my favorite herbs and spices right into the pan that I'm cooking in. I filled mine with my favorite savory things like cumin, turmeric, smoked paprika, garlic powder, oregano,mustard, etc. I could see having a second one for sweet, super aromatic spices like cardamom, cinnamon, etc. (I would not put my cinnamon in with my paprika.)

I'm sure that these tins are for sale in the US. I'm going to look around.

~ C