24 July 2017

What's Going On With Vanilla?

Having built a decent line in Fairtrade organic vanilla, we recently have had to stop selling it to trade because of supply issues.  At the same time, we’ve been asked by many new customers for vanilla or Fairtrade vanilla.  Everyone’s scrabbling aro...

23 June 2017

Cinnamon - Can Science Show Differences In Taste Between Cassia And Cinnamon

In 2015, we did a study of the coumarin level in cinnamon, cassia and tonka beans.  Following on from that, I decided to get the “active” volatile oils analysed in a few types of cinnamon.  In the past, we have done more general tests and found cinna...

31 May 2017

A taste of Spain: Steenbergs smoked paprika and chorizo hash, a heavenly brunch recipe

Smooth, sweet and silky, smoked paprika is truly a delight to cook with. Although paprika can be sourced from Hungary, Steenbergs source organic smoked paprika from Spain and is locally known as Pimenton. There is a distinctly smoky element but there...

15 May 2017

Fairtrade organic ground turmeric: The soft golden spice

Turmeric has received a lot of attention recently but it's truly an old yet new superfood in many ways. This soft gold dust has been used for thousands of years in Asia as both a dye and later for its medicinal properties. Nowadays it's used more and...

27 April 2017

Steenbergs Baharat: The heart and soul of Turkish Spices and an Adana Jewelled Kofte Recipe

The next in our series of spotlighting key Steenbergs products – this time it’s the turn of our organic baharat.

12 April 2017

An Easter Treat: Dark Chocolate ganache cake with happy hippy flower salt

Easter Chocolate Cake

31 March 2017

Cardamom, the exotic and warm spice

Spotlight  on Cardamom, one of Steenbergs key products

24 March 2017

Chermoula, the delightful spice rub for fish

The next in our series of spotlighting key Steenbergs products - this time it's the turn of our organic chermoula.

09 March 2017

A slice of North Africa: Harissa with rose spice blend

Continuing with our series spotlighting one of the Steenbergs key products.

01 March 2017

STEENBERGS BUYS OLD HAMLET WINE & SPICE

Axel and Sophie Steenberg are pleased to announce that Steenbergs Limited (Steenbergs), the organic and Fairtrade spice experts, has acquired the business of Old Hamlet Wine & Spice (Old Hamlet), the mulled wine specialists.

01 March 2017

Time for Tea – our monthly chat with someone who cares about tea

This month our Time for Tea chat is with Niki Behjousiar, Recipe Creator and founder of nikibakes. Niki has been blogging for over 10 years and has recently collaborated with Steenbergs on 4 special blog posts focusing on key Steenbergs ingredients,...

27 February 2017

Rosewater the delicate and versatile kitchen staple

Welcome to a new regular series spotlighting one of the Steenbergs products. The first of these is on the Steenbergs Organic Rose Water.

17 February 2017

Win a box of Steenbergs Fairtrade goodies to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2017!

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25 January 2017

Turmeric, the wonder spice

We’re really excited to announce the launch of our new Steenbergs You Tube channel. We’ll be showing short ‘Behind The Products’ clips, as well as longer cooking demonstrations which we hope you’ll enjoy.

25 January 2017

31 Steenbergs Products Become Halal Certified

Following a detailed certification and audit process that's taken several months, we're pleased that Steenbergs now has 31 products certified as conforming to Halal requirements in accordance with Islamic law.  We've been certified by Halal Certifica...

17 January 2017

Steenbergs Extracts and Flower Waters now registered with Vegan Society

We've successfully registered Steenbergs' extracts and flower waters with The Vegan Society. This is the start of a process that will see Steenbergs include vegan branding into our bakery range over the next few months.

04 January 2017

Steenbergs Becomes Kosher Certified

We’ve been working during the last few years on upping our game in our certifications.  It’s alright saying that Steenbergs is good at this and that, but quite another thing to prove it.

30 December 2016

2016 - A Truly Weird Year

2016 has been a strange year, with political events intruding on our best efforts at Steenbergs.  These external factors will impact the business for many years to come, and will make everything trickier and riskier.  However, they will not deflect u...