T-Pain teamed back up with Meherwan Irani, James Beard Award-winning chef and Spicewalla’s resident “spice daddy,” to create the brand’s first hot sauce, which is made with North Carolina-grown red jalapeño peppers sourced from a family-owned farm near Spicewalla’s factory in Asheville, N.C.

Top chefs tap master spice blenders to expand the palette of flavors they have to play with. You, too, can take advantage of top-quality blends, each one a shortcut to delicious complexity.

Neat rows of square silver packages fill the shelves at a new establishment. Spices whose influences span the globe are inside each.

Our list of tested tools includes a trusty cutting board, essential kitchen appliances, and durable knife sets.

Spicewalla Sumac is tart and bright, this sumac is delicious sprinkled onto hummus and scooped up with homemade flatbread (that's *also* sprinkled with sumac). Also, I like to season chicken thighs with this harissa and grill 'em! Can I also shout out the tins? They're really adorable and stack well on top of each other in my spice cabinet.

I always recommend either finding a great garam masala that you love or making your own. Spicewalla has a fantastic one,” Siddiqi says. “It’s a staple in so many dishes and so many of the premade ones are trash.

Spicewalla has a team of four developers working on new blends that hit on four key attributes: visual interest when you open the tin, aroma, how the blend tastes straight up, and how that flavor transforms when cooked.

Fresh, small-batch spices from James Beard award-winning chef Meherwan Irani’s Spicewalla and rich cocoa from pastry chef-approved Guittard are a match made in hot chocolate heaven.

Chances are that it’s time to spice up your spice cabinet. It's hard to tell how long that garlic powder has been there. Brought to you by a James Beard Award–winning chef, these rubs, marinades, and seasonings are made in small batches, so they’re super fresh. Grilling just got spicier!

The most outstanding restaurant in America, according to the James Beard Foundation, is an Indian street-snack spot in Asheville. As an added bonus, you can purchase herbs, spices and more from Irani’s Spicewalla brand to take home, including garam masala and chai-spiced hot chocolate.

From peppercorns and chile flakes to cardamom and coriander, these are the spices Bon Appétit editors reach for the most. If you find the list below overwhelming, don’t panic. Opt for a preselected collection like Spicewalla’s Kitchen Essentials!

Spicewalla’s kitchen essentials collection has 18 different spices, each with a label in a different color, and is packaged in a way that is reminiscent of those color-coded bookshelves that are all over inspirational/aspirational mood boards.