Originally aired on YPR’s Flavors Under the Big Sky
World Spice Merchants is flavoring our tables.
In Columbia Falls, aromatic and dynamic concoctions are being packaged and sent to kitchens near and far. In 2005 Amanda Bevill purchased her storefront located right below Pike Place Market in Seattle, and then in 2015, expanded her packing operation to a warehouse in Montana.
In the Emerald City, in a brick building near the Puget Sound and in the shadow of the oldest operating public market in the United States is the retail space for World Spice Merchants. Opened in 1907, Pike Place Market has abounded with energy with shoppers and tourists who come to marvel at the fresh bounty, witness the tossing of fish between the fishmongers and marvel at the gum wall…