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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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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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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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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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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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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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Supplier Focus: Necton Salt - traditional Portuguese hand-harvested salt

20 June 2022

Supplier Focus: Necton Salt - traditional Portuguese hand-harvested salt

Have you ever wondered why our Traditional Sea Salt is so clean and white? It’s because it is hand-harvested on the Algarve in Portugal where the summers are long and hot, using a traditional method that ensures the purest of sea salts. 

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The Best Meat-free BBQ Recipes

12 May 2022

The Best Meat-free BBQ Recipes

A few meat-free BBQ ideas to try out this summer...

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Supplier Focus: Felix Reverte for organic paprika and saffron

05 April 2022

Supplier Focus: Felix Reverte for organic paprika and saffron

One of the first suppliers that Steenbergs used for paprika and saffron was Felix Reverte SA, based in Murcia, southeast Spain and we continue to work with them nearly 20 years on. 

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Spice talk with Sumayya Usmani

30 March 2022

Spice talk with Sumayya Usmani

Sumayya Usmani is the pioneer voice for Pakistani cuisine in the UK and we're delighted to have blended her unique organic rose petal Garam Masala.

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Recent Heavy Metal Test Results For Steenbergs Herbs, Spices and Teas

17 December 2021

Recent Heavy Metal Test Results For Steenbergs Herbs, Spices and Teas

Steenbergs shares recent laboratory results for heavy metals residues of a random sample of its organic ingredients. These tests form part of our normal testing regime to ensure our ingredients are as good as you can get in the UK.

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Sharmini’s Inspirational Steenbergs Spice Kit

05 August 2021

Sharmini’s Inspirational Steenbergs Spice Kit

We are delighted to have been working with Sharmini Thomas of Sharmini’s Inspirational Indian Cuisine for the past 6 years, collaborating on recipes, videos and demonstrations at York Food festival and generally sharing a passion for fabulo...

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How hot is hot? Take a look at our Chilli Heat Guide to find out...

30 June 2021

How hot is hot? Take a look at our Chilli Heat Guide to find out...

From mild, sweet chillies to the ultimate kick-ass chilli for real chilli heads, it pays to know your Kashmiri from your Cayenne so that you can choose the right one for you and your guests.

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Salads for a sunny day

15 June 2021

Salads for a sunny day

Following our recent customer survey, several of you asked for more savoury recipes, and in particular for salads with tasty dressings. 

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Why ras-al-hanout is top of the shop

22 February 2021

Why ras-al-hanout is top of the shop

Discover the history behind the Middle Eastern spice blend with over 20 key ingredients

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5 Easy Vegan Dishes for Veganuary

13 January 2021

5 Easy Vegan Dishes for Veganuary

With over 542,000 vegans in the UK, according to new data commissioned by The Vegan Society, and numbers rising all the time, veganism is the UK’s fastest growing lifestyle choice.  It’s not only a UK trend either, with over 1,000,000 peopl...

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Flavour your Way to a Stronger Immune System: The Best Herbs & Spices for Cold and Flu Season

22 September 2020

Flavour your Way to a Stronger Immune System: The Best Herbs & Spices for Cold and Flu Season

Read our fascinating guest blog from Mel, aka Dopamine Chef, on how to eat to boost your immune system

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5 Flavours for Summer

24 June 2020

5 Flavours for Summer

Summer hopefully brings with it warmer, longer evenings and the chance to enjoy eating outside. We often tend towards lighter, healthier foods packed with texture and colour and tasting of bright, vibrant flavours. Herbs, spices and extracts are a gr...

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Spices for Spring

14 April 2020

Spices for Spring

Spring is the time when we start moving away from comfort food – hearty stews, soups and pies – and feel the need for something lighter, brighter and possibly healthier. Here we’ve highlighted a few herbs and spices that do just that. They’re full of...

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