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MORTAR & KETTLE
APOTHECARY OF FLAVOR
AN OPEN INDEX · SPICE · HERBAL TEA · SMOOTHIE · TABLE

Flavor, traced
to its chemistry.

A free index of recipes (spice mixes, herbal teas, smoothies, and meal ideas), each one documented through the compounds that give it aroma, taste, and effect. Craft with a lab notebook open beside the mortar.

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Where others print a flavor, we document the reason for it. Start with a craft.

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Every recipe reads like a lab notebook

Pick a recipe to see its fingerprint: the botanical and chemical compounds behind its aroma, taste, and effect.

Blue Euphoric Tea · finished
HERBAL TEA · №002
Blue Euphoric Tea
a bright butterfly-blue lift
STEEP 6 MIN
FLAVOR & EFFECT
anthocyanins
blue pigment, antioxidant
linalool
floral, soothing
anethole
sweet, licorice-anise
gingerol
warm, pungent
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Linalool. Apigenin. Anethole. We name the reason a thing tastes the way it does. Then we write it down, so anyone can make it.

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