The Spicery

What's in the box: Each monthly Spicebox brings recipes along with the freshly ground spices you need to cook them.

The Spicery is a British spice company built around recipes. It also sells a monthly Spicebox subscription, which brings recipes and freshly ground spices through your letterbox. The rest of the shop has plenty more: single recipe kits with the spices measured out ready to use, a large A to Z range of everyday and unusual spices, around-the-world gift boxes, and its Legend cookbook kits. Each Legend kit pairs a book with four spice blends and more than 80 recipes, and the range covers curry, noodles, tacos and mezze. The company says it toasts, grinds and blends its spices itself, and its recipes draw on cuisines it has tasted while travelling. The focus is on cooking a full dish, not just stocking a cupboard. That suits people who want structure and new ideas more than people who like to improvise. Several Legend kits show hundreds of customer reviews on the site, which suggests a well established business. If you came looking for hot sauce, note that the site's own text is about spices, recipes and kits, and it does not present hot sauce as a main product. A quiz on the site helps you pick a product for yourself or as a gift. Because the box fits through a letterbox, delivery is simple and you do not need to be home.