World Spice Merchants

World Spice Merchants (WSM) is a shop on Western Avenue[1] near Pike Place Market in Seattle's Central Waterfront district.

The store stocks cookbooks, curries, herbs, salts, "exotic" seasonings,[2] spices and rubs,[3] as well as teas from around the world.

[4][5] WSM has carried Aleppo pepper,[6] cinnamon,[7] Mayan cocoa, Seattle Salmon Rub,[8] Tellicherry berries,[9] and vanilla beans.

[14] Bevill and chef Julie Kramis Hearne published World Spice at Home: New Flavors for 75 Favorite Dishes in 2014.

[19] In his 2012 book Pike Place Market Recipes, Jess Thomson called WSM "a scratch-and-sniff extravaganza for grown-ups, where what you need is ground to order" and recommended browsing the cookbook library.