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Top 10 canapés for Christmas

02 December 2024

Top 10 canapés for Christmas

If you’re entertaining over the festive period then it’s a lovely idea to have some delicious canapés to hand out with the drinks. We're put together some delicious recipes for you from some of our favourite chefs and food writers.

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Steenbergs Gift Guide 2024

12 November 2024

Steenbergs Gift Guide 2024

Spice, Season, Savour with the Steenbergs Gift Guide. Everything you need for the foodies in your life, from stocking fillers to that little bit extra.

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It Starts with Veg - Interview with Chef Ceri Jones

25 September 2024

It Starts with Veg - Interview with Chef Ceri Jones

Ceri Jones is a chef, food educator and cookbook author whose recent release, It Starts with Veg, is the perfect companion to the weekly veg box.

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Extract from Genius Gut - The Life Changing Science of the Second Brain

12 August 2024

Extract from Genius Gut - The Life Changing Science of the Second Brain

Extract from Genius Gut - The Life Changing Science of the Second Brain p293-295

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Q&A with Dr Emily Leeming, author of Genius Gut

07 August 2024

Q&A with Dr Emily Leeming, author of Genius Gut

Microbiome scientist, registered dietician and former chef Dr Emily Leeming PhD MSc RD has recently published Genius Gut - The Life-Changing Science of Easting for Your Second Brain, an essential book for understanding our gut-brain connection. Packe...

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Supplier Focus: Odysea - traditional Greek & Mediterranean products

22 July 2024

Supplier Focus: Odysea - traditional Greek & Mediterranean products

Odysea started back in 1991 when founder, Panos Manuelides, began selling olives and home-made dips from a stall in Portobello road

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Meet our Stockist - Hedgehog Organics

16 July 2024

Meet our Stockist - Hedgehog Organics

Hedgehog Organics is a fabulous shop and box delivery service dedicated to the best locally sourced organic food, drinks and provisions and is located in the heart of the community in Bingley, West Yorkshire. 

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20 Years On at Steenbergs

29 May 2024

20 Years On at Steenbergs

20 years of Steenbergs and what we are all about.

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A Herb Tasting Exercise from Aromatherapist Ellen Rowland

20 May 2024

A Herb Tasting Exercise from Aromatherapist Ellen Rowland

Tasting a herb without knowing what it is will free you of all preconceptions – try it in this exercise.

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The Healing Power of Scent - book review and interview with herbalist Ellen Rowland

14 May 2024

The Healing Power of Scent - book review and interview with herbalist Ellen Rowland

In her new book, The Healing Power of Scent, aromatherapist and author Ellen Rowland dives deep into the most mysterious and ephemeral of the five senses – scent – and explores how we can use our own unique responses to the smells we find in the worl...

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Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

08 April 2024

Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

In 2016, Steenbergs began on its plan to reduce its controllable carbon impacts. Here, we discuss how we've reduced the direct impacts by over -90% (before carbon offsets) since then..

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Meet the Team - Kristina

02 April 2024

Meet the Team - Kristina

Meet our lovely team member Kristina, who's in charge of the beautifully packaged parcels you receive

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A Whisper of Cardamom - how to spice up your baking with Eleanor Ford

19 March 2024

A Whisper of Cardamom - how to spice up your baking with Eleanor Ford

We are always excited when a new spice cookbook comes out but we are particularly excited by award-winning author Eleanor Ford's new book A Whisper of Cardamom.

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STEENBERGS IMPACT REPORT 2024

15 March 2024

STEENBERGS IMPACT REPORT 2024

2023 has been a better year than 2022 in terms of sales which have recovered, but costs remain high and difficult. Steenbergs has reduced its environmental impact, by cutting water use and waste and eliminating electricity from fossil fuels. We are c...

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30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

11 March 2024

30+ Plants - how to add more plants into your diet

Variety is the spice of life or so they say and it’s certainly true of adding different plants to your diet. When we first came across the Tim Spector's 30 different plants a week it sounded a lot but once we started counting and actively choose to b...

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Sri Lankan Inspiration from Chef, Emily Dobbs

19 February 2024

Sri Lankan Inspiration from Chef, Emily Dobbs

We're delighted to be working with acclaimed chef Emily Dobbs who will be creating some delicious dishes using Steenbergs spices. Emily specialises in a host of cuisines from European to Japanese using seasonal British produce, but it is her successf...

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Make Room for Mushrooms!

30 January 2024

Make Room for Mushrooms!

As Veganuary draws to a close we thought we’d highlight a few favourite recipes to take forward into 2024 and what better place to start than with mushrooms!

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Knife Skills for Beginners - the new crime novel from food writer Orlando Murrin

19 January 2024

Knife Skills for Beginners - the new crime novel from food writer Orlando Murrin

As you all know, we love a good book here at Steenbergs, so we were delighted to see that acclaimed food writer Orlando Murrin had branched out into crime writing with a new novel Knife Skills for Beginners out on the 1st February. We caught up with...

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Steenbergs Rebranding - How We Created Our New Branding

01 December 2023

Steenbergs Rebranding - How We Created Our New Branding

It’s been an exciting 20 years since we started out on the Steenbergs journey. Our mission to provide ethically-sourced, flavour-packed herbs, spices, teas and cooking ingredients still burns as strong as ever. 

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