We are a couple of Southern girls who wandered north, established careers, married and became moms. We met and discovered shared passions for absorbing work, creative challenges and good mayonnaise on a ripe tomato.

It’s true that tsp spices grew out of our fondness for adventurous eating and full-flavored food. It’s also true that the company evolved from utter despair that we could ever maintain an orderly spice cabinet – and the frustration of finding one too many stale bottles of cardamom or coriander lingering from the Clinton era, or even the days of Bush I. And we couldn’t deny that tsp spices® is our nod to the notion of “second lives.”

Each of us had accomplished careers – Katie as an art historian and museum curator and Sara as an editor and columnist for daily newspapers. But we found ourselves at turning points.

Conversations and ideas built on one another and soon, like a couple of 15th century explorers, we had visions of spices dancing in our heads. Ours were not of camel caravans or full-masted ships sailing uncharted seas. We dreamed instead of orderly supplies of spices bursting with flavor rather than wasting away in the back of the cabinet.

We’re pleased to share that vision with you through tsp spices®, featured in this website, and through Smart Spice® our grocery store brand. We promise you vibrant tastes with organic spices that are free of additives and fillers and packaged to preserve their freshness. We also make them easy on your storage system and pleasant to look at when they’re on your counter.

We hope you’ll let our spices enliven your culinary adventures with fresh flavors wrapped in style.