• 2.5oz (72g) glass container 
• Ingredients: Cured Sumac, Lemon Powder, Robusta Black Peppercorns, Wind-Blown Sea Salt, Purple Stripe Garlic, Flowering Hyssop Thyme
• Cooking suggestions: Shake it onto creamy dips, avocado toast and tuna salad for a quick upgrade, or sprinkle over roast chicken, fish and vegetables.   

Burlap & Barrel are delicious, single origin spices sourced directly from small farms around the world. Their spices are harvested by hand, dried naturally, grown organically whenever possible, and transported directly to preserve freshness. Burlap & Barrel is a Public Benefit Corporation building new international food supply chains that are equitable, transparent and traceable.

The Sumac Lemon Pepper is built around the wild-foraged sumac from southeastern Turkey. Growing on the hillsides around Gaziantep, often alongside pistachio orchards, sumac is not cultivated but gathered from naturally occurring shrubs. Harvest takes place by hand in late summer, when villagers collect the ripe berry clusters from the hillsides, either casually as they encounter the plants or through seasonal foraging work organized at the village level.

After harvest, the berries are laid out to dry in open, airy spaces, relying on sun and natural airflow. Once fully dried, the fruit shells are removed and the remaining fruit is ground with salt and allowed to cure, a traditional step that helps stabilize the spice and shape its tangy, citrusy character. Because this sumac grows wild and responds directly to seasonal conditions, natural variation in color and appearance from harvest to harvest is expected — and a reflection of how closely this spice is tied to place.

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