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Mad about the alchemy of spices. Cooking up a storm in Lewes, East Sussex. www.sevensistersspices.com

18/06/2026

Been a while since we four were all together 🩷💚🧡💜 Thanks to .montgomery for the excellent picture ❤️

15/06/2026

My little kitchen garden is coming into its stride, each year a little fuller and more established than the last. I will be listing workshop dates online later today if you’d like to book in a visit to the kitchen and come cook with me.

Hope you all have a good week ahead X

14/06/2026

Why marching in the sunshine is not enough.

The colour binary was a device created by white imperialism in the moment following the Industrial Revolution when the wildly expanding Empires of Europe & the frantic growth of capitalism needed a free workforce to build themselves yet further. Black Africans were dehumanised as a means to justify the brutal treatment during their capture from their homes, forced trans Atlantic passage, enslavement & putting to work in the sugar cane & cotton fields of the newly stolen Americas & Caribbean. Had they been viewed as human, as equal, their treatment would have been inconceivable. The simultaneous depopulation & genocide brought down by white colonisers on the dark skinned indigenous communities inhabiting the stolen land was facilitated by the same means. Institutionalised racism was born.

The racism we see today is an inevitable continuation of this brainwashing. Capitalism is failing. It needs its binaries to be enforced in order to survive. It has always needed to reinforce this racist dogma in order to maintain power & continue stealing land & resources - see Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, DRC, Sudan, Grenada, Venezuela, Cuba….

It is not possible to grow up in institutionally prejudiced Britain & not carry some form of prejudice within us. We are all responsible for our own s**t & we all have to interrogate our internalised prejudices, root them out & deal with them. This is a life long practice. Going on marches is not enough. Do the work - read, watch, listen. Learn where the prejudice lies within yourself & call it out whenever you see it manifest elsewhere. Not just in the sunshine while dancing to a DJ. I shall share some links in stories & always value any pointing towards things myself - this work never ends - so please share.

Image by Cliffe Tyrell from African ABC, a series of images commissioned by the British government during WW2 to promote the war effort in Africa. Cliffe Tyrell was my Jamaican grandfather who came to London in 1937 on a scholarship to study art at the Central School. He did not thrive as he should have personally or professionally due to racism. More on that another time.

09/06/2026

All portions of Balinese Pork had sold out by yesterday, so I added an extra ten portions, of which there are just 7 left….there are 15 vegetable katsu curries left - I’ll be picking up the vegetables for this dish from tomorrow, where I’ll also get the squash for the gyoza dumplings. If you fancy a finish at home take away this Friday without the UPFs and other nasties - you can opt to have brown rice too - there’s still time to order…..links in bio and stories….delivery or free pick up from Muddles Green or Lewes this Friday June 12th ❤️‍🔥

07/06/2026

Managed a little multi tasking this week in the kitchen. Had a lovely time catering a pre wedding supper and brunch for family & friends of the groom, made a couple of gluten free quiches and a fresh cream & fruit filled chocolate fudge cake for a party & catered an 80th birthday party (didn’t manage any pictures of this last). Absolutely gorgeous clients all round, a joy to cook for them all.

Next week is a Friday Food week & I’ve already had to add more Balinese Slow Roasted Pork to the website, & it’s only Sunday! 🥰🙏🏽

04/06/2026

I ❤️ the arrival of English tomato season 🍅

Beautiful produce on the bench today. Thank you Halls Fruit & Veg for getting me some tomatoes 🍅❤️‍🔥

03/06/2026

Holding this form of Pepper energy while our Noa flies their way home from Australia for a 3 week holiday after being away for over two years.
TWO YEARS!
I feel like someone has taken their foot off my chest 🥹

29/05/2026

Last night I had a ball catering finger food for & this is the only documentary evidence, there are two reasons for this lack of photos…

The 1st I have mentioned here before - my falling out of love for the platforms & for dancing my monkey dance to the organ grinders tune.

The 2nd is that while I have steady work it is at a much lower volume than last year & on the whole I can’t afford to employ people to work with me when I cook, so when I’m in cooking I am often doing the work of two people over the course of a day. This was the case yesterday. The job paid enough to employ two people, it’s just that it was this week’s only job, & so that meant that it didn’t. It certainly left no time for photos.

These are exceptionally challenging times for food businesses. The weather this spring & its inevitable negative impact on coming crops is a huge worry. Add to this the impact of the wars. A lot of us micro businesses will fold under the pressure.

In the meantime I carry on. Next week has not one, not two, but three jobs, one which is for two events on two different days, and so I won’t be working alone for most of it. The week after is a Friday food week, & reducing that event to once monthly has been great - I am gaining more orders for the once monthly event than I did in total over the month when offering it every other week. I am able to run my kit less, the energy guzzling large fridge, dishwasher, ovens…they stay off most days, & hopefully this will impact my outgoings.

My diary is sparse for most of July and August. I am hoping to add two pop ups during this time, my June one is fully booked so hopefully these will book up too. I don’t yet know what the cost of hiring the new venue next door will be, so it’s hard to plan exactly what I will be offering, but watch this space on your feed - I have lots & lots of ideas.

In short, thank you for reading. If you are a customer, past, present or future, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sometimes getting to do this work feels like both an indulgence and a grind. I love feeding people, last night was pure joy. I hope that I can continue to do so.

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Muddles Green
Lewes
BN86HW

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https://linktr.ee/sevensistersspices

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