spicemills.ca

Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Join us on Saturday June 8th and Sunday June 9th for the 3rd annual Full Table Fair in Holland Centre, Ontario (15 minutes southeast of Owen Sound).

This is a local grass roots foodie event celebrating everything that goes around the kitchen/dining table and the custom of sharing meals with family and friends.

This will be our first year participating in the Full table Fair event and we are excited! We invite you to come on out and see the incredible selection of local artisan ware in this beautiful rural garden setting.

We know many of the artisan vendors who will be there, and know that you won’t be disappointed in the quality and variety of the handcrafted merchandise on display (and of course for sale).

We hope to see you there.

For more information about this event visit the Full Table Fair blog at www.thefulltablefair.blogspot.ca.

The Full Table Fair show and sale will be held at: 495579 Veterans Rd. South, RR 2, Holland Centre, Ontario, N0H 1R0

Click on image below for list of vendors and map

spicemills.ca is delighted to be part of the 36th annual Markham Village Music Festival (Markham Village, Ontario) on Saturday June 15, 2013.

We will be there again this year with a great selection of our one-of-a-kind handcrafted spice mills (pepper, salt & spice mills) and spice bowls, as well as some wonderfully fragrant and flavourful hand blended peppercorns. Read the rest of this entry »

Foodie Pages launches this new collection of BBQ inspired foodie accoutrements (including our Peppercorn Steak Spice Blend just in time for summer . . .

The team at Foodie Pages pulled together some of our favourite small batch, handcrafted foods to help you bring the BBQ to your backyard this summer. The Backyard BBQ Cooking Box is filled with 5 delicious barbecue condiments from the best indie food producers across Canada, all of which are available individually at FoodiePages.ca: Read the rest of this entry »

Come see us in Toronto’s Historic Distillery District for the
“Artfest at the Distillery Spring Art & Craft Show”

Artfest Toronto launches the summer with a celebration of the top 80 artists & artisans from across Canada.

Artists are exhibiting at the Historic Distillery District for three days only. Come stroll the cobble stone lanes and take in the beauty of Toronto’s Distillery District.

Featuring pottery, glass, jewellery, paintings, wood turning, gourmet foods, live music and so much more, you are sure to love this kick off the summer event. Admission is free!

We have been busy preparing for this exciting show and have a great new selection of handcrafted spiceware for you to browse.

Drop by the show this Victoria Day long weekend and check out our new collection which among others includes handturned wood grinders, funnels and bowls made from: birdseye maple, curly maple, spalted maple, red elm, black walnut, curly ash, maple burl, bubinga, black cherry, kentucky coffeewood, purpleheart, rosewood, and more.  We will also have our hand blended Trio, Silhouette, Szechuan, Steak Spice, and Special Blend peppercorns on hand too.

Come see us in Toronto for Artfest at the Distillery on the Victoria Day long weekend. Hope to see you there!

About the Show

• Artfest at the Distillery Spring Art & Craft Show
• Saturday May 18th to Monday May 20th, 2013
• 11am-6pm daily
• 80 artist/artisan vendors
• Gourmet Food
• Live music
• Free admission
• 55 Mill St Toronto (click here for map)

May is off to a great start in the Spicemills.ca workshop/studio. We are getting ready for the ArtFest at the Distillery show in Toronto in a couple of weeks (May 19-20), and are finishing off lots of new inventory. We have just completed and added about a dozen new spice funnels mills to our eStore.

Click here to browse the new selection which among others includes spice mills made from: birdseye maple, curly red maple, sugar maple, black walnut, pau rosa, ash, and more… Read the rest of this entry »

Come see us in Toronto’s Historic Distillery District for the
“Artfest at the Distillery Spring Art & Craft Show”

Artfest Toronto launches the summer with a celebration of the top 85 artists & artisans from across Canada.

Artists are exhibiting at the Historic Distillery District for three days only. Come stroll the cobble stone lanes and take in the beauty of the Distillery District. Featuring pottery, glass, jewellery, paintings, wood turning, gourmet foods, live music and more. FREE admission.

Spicemills.ca will be there with a great variety of our functional and artistic handcrafted spice mills, spice bowls, and our hand blended peppercorns.

Come see us in Toronto for Artfest at the Distillery on the Victoria Day long weekend.  Hope to see you there!

About the Show

• Artfest at the Distillery Spring Art & Craft Show
• Saturday May 18th to Monday May 20th, 2013
• 11am-6pm daily
• Free admission
• 55 Mill St Toronto (click here for map)

Wow… I just love these stunning handmade birdseye maple spice mills!

I been on the lookout for some great quality birdseye maple for a long times and believe me, it can be hard to find.  This is especially true when you are really fussy!  In addition to to right visual appeal (tight grain and intense figure), the wood needs to be exceptionally stable (properly dried, straight, and check free) and the right size (at least 3″ square and 10″ or more in length) before it can become a handcradted Spicemills.ca spice mill.

I recently purchased a small supply of outstanding birdseye maple and am delighted with the results.  Check out the first of these special birdseye maple spice mills here in our eStore.

Our supply of this enigmatic wood is very limited and while we expect to make a few more later this year, we do not anticipate finding more wood of this quality in the foreseeable future.

By the way… as with all of our spice mills, these spectacular birdseye maple mills feature an authentic CrushGrind® ceramic mechanism which makes them ideal for grinding peppercorns, salt and spices. Read the rest of this entry »

April was a very busy month in the Spicemills.ca workshop/studio.  We have been preparing lots of inventory for upcoming shows and are pleased to have added more than a dozen new mills to our eStore.

Click here to browse the new selection which among others includes spice grinders made from: birdseye maple, red elm, black walnut, maple burl, bubinga, black cherry, kentucky coffeewood, purpleheart and more… Read the rest of this entry »

As micro producers of fine quality hand crafted goods, we are proud to be part of the independent artisan community. To help celebrate the wonderful independent spirit behind the artisans, we will periodically feature one of our fellow Owen Sound Artists’ Co-op or Foodie Pages artisan producers here at Spicemills.ca. We hope you will visit them at the Artists’ Co-op and Foodie Pages, in person, at shows/events, or whereever you can help to support and encourage them and the independent artisan community in general.

In this artisan spotlight we feature Foodie Pages artisan producers Rallis Olive Oil and the Rallis Family.

The Rallis Family has been making ice pressed olive oil for nearly 5 years.

What is the difference? In terms of taste… lots. In terms of healing… everything!

Ice pressed IS NOT cold pressed! Pressing a dramatic 20-30X colder and at a fraction of the time than ‘cold pressed’ olive oil, creates a highly nutritive, super-refreshing, enzyme rich oil! Cloudy, green and raw tasting, the olives’ intense healing properties are maintained in their original state.

There’s a lot more to their journey in sustainable farming and lifestyle medicine, join the raw evoo-lution and learn more at www.icepressed.com, follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RallisRAWIcePressedOliveOil, or visit them on Foodie Pages at www.foodiepages.ca/producer/Rallis_Olive_Oil.

2013 is off to a great start and we are busier than ever!
Here’s a quick look at what’s going on…

In addition to relaunching our eStore this spring, we have recently delivered a large selection of our handmade spice mills to both the Owen Sound Artists’ Co-op in Owen Sound, and the Niagara Escarpment Outfitters in Collingwood.  We are also preparing to bring some of our spice mills as well as a few other unique one-of-a-kind hand turned items to the Linda Bester Studios Gallery in Sauble Beach this summer.

Earlier this month we participated in our first show of the season, the Hanover Home and Garden Show, and are now back in the workshop/studio preparing for Artfest at the Distillery District (Toronto), the Full Table Fare (Holland Centre), and the Markahm Village Music Festival.  And that’s just in the next two months.  In total we’ll be at more than a dozen shows this year, including our first visit as vendors at the famous Summerfolk Music Festival.  You can find our full 2013 show schedule at www.spicemills.ca/events. Read the rest of this entry »