Liz Edgecombe &

The Spice People…

“Our sole aim is to offer an enriching culinary journey, connecting people, cultures and cuisines through the universal language of food.”

Liz Edgecombe is an avid spice evangelist and shares her love of food through flavour, scent and taste. Based in Victoria, Liz created The Spice People in 1997 to share her dedication to spices of the famed spice route and connect people from all walks of life through a collective commitment to exploring cuisines and cultures through spice.

Today, Liz is regarded one of Australia’s leading spice experts and a go-to guru when it comes to all things herbs and spices. But Liz is more than just a leader in the spice realm. Liz is a business mentor, single mum, advocate for women in business and a successful businesswoman in her own right with a growing team of staff, working to encourage and support other women to become business owners and leaders. While raising her two children, Liz has grown a successful brand with a catalogue of more than 200 spices to help everyday home cooks elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Always looking for ways to bring an enriching culinary journey to her customers, Liz created Flavours of the World in 2020, a range of delicious and aromatic spice foundations to create memorable meals, taking home cooks on a journey to the far-reaching corners of the world from the comfort of their very own kitchens. Inspired by the spice route, FOTW helps to unlock new culinary experiences in a simple and affordable way, creating and harnessing a global community of foodies by connecting people, cultures and cuisines.

Thanks to her innate curiosity, a wealth of knowledge, a successful business and frequent appearances on Channel Ten’s My Market Kitchen, Liz has developed a thriving community of foodies, offering a one-stop shop for products, recipes, knowledge and endless inspiration!

We are passionate
about enriching life.

At The Spice People, our passion for great food and mission to teach the wonderful benefits of herbs and spices has led us to create and harness a community of foodies. Our ethos is all about introducing spices of the world into everyday cooking and making it simple, easy, affordable and fun. We have a zest for adding that bit of extra spice to life and seek to provide you with the world’s best flavours.

The Spice People isn’t just our name, it’s infused in the way we do things. We are an all-encompassing brand that strives to bring people and cultures together by delivering the world to your table. We believe food and cooking is the universal language that binds us all together and is something that should be celebrated every day with the freshest and best ingredients our brilliant earth has to offer.

Our Journey

1997 – The Spice People’s journey began. Growing up in rural NSW, Liz lived strongly by a paddock-to-plate philosophy and learned from a very young age the importance of producing food the natural way. Inspired by her agricultural upbringing and love of cooking dishes from her world travels, Liz had a vision to create a hub for Australian foodies in search of those interesting and hard-to-find spices from around the globe. And thus, The Spice People was born – a one-stop shop for premium global herbs and spices.

2000 – A globe-trotter at heart, Liz began traversing the spice route, learning to source the very best our world had to offer. Often finding herself in the locals’ kitchens, Liz got a window into the traditional cooking techniques, ingredients and flavours of that region, learning secret family recipes from the home cooks themselves. Inspired by her travels, Liz began combining her inherent knack for flavour balancing with centuries-old recipes from all over India, Mexico and Europe to introduce new blends to The Spice People’s range, offering Australian home cooks the opportunity to create ancient world-renowned dishes from their very own kitchens.

2009 – Always striving to provide our customers with the highest quality products, we began manufacturing everything in-house to ensure we had total control over the entire process. From procurement to blending to packing, every product to arrive at your homes was carefully hand developed, filled and picked by our dedicated team.

2014 – After almost two decades of success bringing home cooks the very best flavours our culinary world has to offer, The Spice People was expanding. Ready for the next step up, we moved to a larger purpose-built facility to accommodate our growing range and in the same year obtained our food safety HACCP accreditation.

2016 and 2018 – Liz was invited to attend the International Spice Conference and had the opportunity to tour the manufacturing facilities where we source a large amount of our raw materials, seeing firsthand how these ingredients are grown, harvested and processed before making their way to us.

2017 and 2018 – Liz starred on Channel Ten’s hit cooking show My Market Kitchen as their resident spice guru, sharing her expertise with hosts and former Masterchef contestants Emma Dean and Lynton Tapp.

2020 – Liz’s passion for exploring the world one dish at a time and bringing the globe’s most celebrated dishes to her customers saw the evolution of The Spice People’s newest range – Flavours of the World. Born during a year of global disconnection, Flavours of the World was created to reconnect with our world and explore beyond our borders through a culinary journey. Our ethos is all about introducing spices of the world into everyday cooking and making it simple, easy, affordable and fun. Flavours of the World is not just about discovering new and exotic flavours from our world’s most renowned culinary corners but about creating and harnessing a global community of foodies by connecting people, cultures and cuisines.

2023 – Brand new fully integrated website.

Our herbs and spices

With just a quick dash or sprinkle, you can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary Our passion for wholesome cooking and discovering the new and exciting flavours our wonderful world has to offer has kept us globe-trotting throughout the decades to bring you the best. Our products and blends are all about providing you with real meal solutions that are fast, fresh and simple.

With a broad catalogue of more than 200 herbs and spices and our Flavours of the World range comprising 6 regions and 12 countries (and counting), we have a product or blend to suit anyone. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, have allergies, or just simply have some fussy eaters on your hands, our products transcend cultures and cuisines, offering a one-stop shop to cook the world, no matter your taste or needs.

Designed to be multipurpose, our bespoke blends can be used to spice up just about any dish. With a quick dash, sprinkle or rub, you can transform everyday ordinary meals into extraordinary, transcending you to far-reaching corners of the world from your very own dining table.

Looking for a product or blend that we don’t currently stock? Get in touch! We’re experts at tracking down those hard-to-find ingredients.

We love fresh ingredients, simply prepared

Our extensive catalogue of recipes is all about making wholesome, delicious cooking fast, fresh and simple. All about fresh ingredients flavoured with pure herbs and spices and simply prepared, our recipes create memorable dishes, inspiring you to discover your inner home cook.

We’ve travelled the world to source the most authentic recipes our globe’s culinary regions are known for and worked to translate them into fast, simple meals you can create at home without skimping on flavour.

With simple step-by-step instructions, you can transform wholefoods in an instant with our easy-to-use all-natural blends and just a few everyday pantry staples.

All our recipes are easily adaptable to suit a range of diets and tastes, offering protein and ingredient swap solutions to eliminate the tricky guesswork.

Explore the world’s spice route one delicious dish at a time.

We are the Spice People

At The Spice People, our products are manufactured here in Melbourne by a dedicated team from all walks of life. From young University students to those looking to enter the culinary world and learn new skills, we find it important to employ and foster the talents of the next generation.

Many members of our team have travelled to Australia from world-renowned spice-producing countries and love to share their favourite dishes from their homeland with many a recipe being shared and swapped over the years adding extensively to our collection of recipes.

We love the diverse community we have created at The Spice People with many skill sets, talents and minds working together to bring you the best.

We are the Spice People

At The Spice People, our products are manufactured here in Melbourne by a dedicated team from all walks of life. From young University students to those looking to enter the culinary world and learn new skills, we find it important to employ and foster the talents of the next generation.

Many members of our team have travelled to Australia from world-renowned spice-producing countries and love to share their favourite dishes from their homeland with many a recipe being shared and swapped over the years adding extensively to our collection of recipes. We love the diverse community we have created at The Spice People with many skill sets, talents and minds working together to bring you the best.

Our social responsibility

We support Kiva microloans

The Spice People brand is passionate about helping others, especially in countries whose residents don’t share our freedom, our wealth, and our access to those things we take for granted, like clean water and disease control. We support Kiva microloans, an international not for profit agency, devised to alleviate poverty through the provision of small business loans, especially to women, in the developing world.
To date, The Spice People have provided 53 small business loans in 28 different countries. It’s exciting to be part of something so inspiring and inspiring to be contributing to the betterment of others across the globe.

We believe in the future

  • We are committed to the 2025 Sustainable Packaging Target.
  • Our packaging is suitable for Red Cycle recycling.
  • We source our herbs and spices directly from the country of production.
  • Our products are locally manufactured in Melbourne.
  • We focus on creating authentic flavour, minimising unnecessary carbon miles by excluding water, flour, fillers, or sugar from our packets.

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