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Our story begins in a small town in Southern India, where my grandmother, Amma, was born. Amma's first memories are of spending Amma grew up and got married to my grandfather, whom I have always called Ajja, and had seven children of her own. My mother is their oldest child. The passion for cooking and feeding everyone around her has definitely been passed on to her from her mother. My grandparents traveled a lot both for pleasure as well as for work. During their many travels, my grandmother utilized every free moment that she had in increasing her culinary knowledge and skills. At that time i.e. 1940-50s the Indian society was still divided into caste systems. The upper class of people did not speak to the lower class. Even in times like this, my grandmother did not hesitate to help people of the lower caste and in turn, has enjoyed learning a lot of their culture and culinary skills. Amma started blending her own spices and powdered chutneys, which she started packing in batches for the whole family. Considering her own large family, my grandfather’s family, followed by her seven children and their families and finally her grandchildren (we are 15 all together) and not to mention a number of close family friends, she keeps herself very busy blending spices, making chutneys and pickles for all of us. My mother has followed my grandmother's footsteps in every way and is the only one of her siblings to have learned the family recipes. She has been actively helping my grandmother in her quest to feed us fresh and healthy meals. My mother has added her own experience to this family trend. She moved to Bombay, a very busy metropolis, after she married my father. Cooking in the traditional manner for a family of five, each with very busy schedules, was not always possible. She started finding ways and means to simplify the complex Indian cooking methods. I learned a lot of skills from my Mom and then based on the taste of my own family, I started to experiment on my own. Now, I have been living in Michigan since 1993 and have two daughters. My children like all kinds of food but they especially enjoy family style meals. This is a great way to really connect with your family and keep the family ties strong. This usually meant a lot of time and effort. Juggling my primary occupation as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, after-school activities, keeping house and trying to cook wholesome and healthy meals for my family, was quite a task for me. I then came up with these unique blends to combine my secret family recepies to enhance the taste in the "American Way" and everybody was happy. These spice blends made my cooking super-easy while it kept the traditional flavors alive. My family and friends love it and my Mom is proud of me. The popularity of these spices within our Indian and Non-Indian friends brought us to into undertaking this huge venture of bringing this treasure to the rest of the world. The final product of more than three lifetimes of pure joy of cooking is brought to you in the form of Peacock Spice Company, LLC® Hopefully, all this will pass on to the fourth generation in even more enthusiastic way, considering that my eleven Year old daughter came up with the name of our Company and my seven year old daughter helped designed our logo. We strive to keep the blends completely authentic while using the finest spices in the world. The Peacock Spice Company, LLC ® blends are made here in Michigan, USA but the roots come from a very far away place where my grandmother and her sisters still wrinkle their nose for anything that is not fresh or of the finest quality. We sincerely hope that you enjoy these spices as much as my family has for more than a 100 years. "From Our Family To Yours~Sincerely, Dr. Smita Ahluwalia, DPT. Story