You've got them all in your kitchen cupboard: pepper, curry, saffron, papryka, turmeric, cinnamon... But according to the French fraud control authority, there is a lot of fraud - up to 81% for saffron! Do you really know what's on your plate? For RMC, Marie Dupin unveils a fraud investigation into spices and spice blends. Spice consumption has exploded in less than 10 years: +35%. But the investigation by the French Direction...Continue Reading

A wide-ranging debate, but a simple reality: spices have a harvesting time. In fact, spices are flowers, bark, buds, roots and other leaves, parts of plants that are harvested at a very specific time, which varies according to the plant species. Unfortunately, when you buy a spice from a retailer, especially a supermarket, you don't know the harvest date, and yet it's from this date that the...Continue Reading

In the beginning... 4300 B.C. // 520 B.C. The discovery and trade of spices has seen empires rise and cities fall, and great powers succeed one another, but it has also served to bind together different eras of human history. This trade has been the starting point for relations between nations, and has kept East and West in constant contact. These spice trade routes have remained the main arteries of...Continue Reading