Pantry · Seattle, Washington
India Tree
Seattle's source for specialty sugars, spices and natural decorating colors.
- Founded
- 1990
- Founded by
- Gretchen Goehrend
- Based in
- Seattle, Washington
Making it since
1990
Their story
India Tree works out of a dockside headquarters in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. Founder Gretchen Goehrend started the company in 1990 and named it after her mother's Spode china pattern.
The pantry line covers baking sugars from Mauritius, salts from around the world, peppercorns, chiles and popcorn. Bakers know India Tree best for its Nature's Colors sugars, sprinkles and icing colors, made without artificial dyes. In 2012 Bon Appétit named its Tellicherry peppercorns a pantry staple.
How it's made
Goehrend selects spices by plant variety and growing region, and pays attention to how they are ripened, picked, dried and stored. The Nature's Colors line uses vegetable-based colorants in place of synthetic dyes.
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Why we carry them
We like India Tree for holiday baking, when decorating sugars without artificial dyes matter. The Tellicherry pepper earns a spot by the stove year-round.
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