The Silk Road Spice Merchant is a family business started in 2008 after realizing that it was difficult—if not impossible—to find the spices, herbs and chiles they needed for certain recipes. One recipe would often mean trips to several different stores and led the Silk Road team to wonder why there wasn’t one specialty shop that had every kind of spice imaginable. Eventually, they decided to open that shop themselves. All of their spice blends are hand-mixed and have been developed, tested, and perfected by them!