Arun Kapil

05/06/2025

Fantastic edition this month…. Also, my monthly piece is worth a read, ‘How to cook like a magician without a dicky bird to hand’

Humane Socialism

04/04/2025

📢 New member alert! Welcome Arun Kapil

Settling in Ireland’s food capital Cork in 2004, Arun set-up his highly regarded and award-winning spice company Green Saffron in 2007 with wife Olive. Green Saffron sources sustainable, fresh spices direct from partner farms in India, working with local communities supporting farming villages through seasonal and consistent projects. Arun produces highly innovative, unique and exceptional blends for cuisines of all styles. His products are used by top chefs the world over.

Arun completed the Ballymaloe Cookery course in 2004, has popped-up in restaurants throughout Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK and France, and regularly appears on television and radio shows in Ireland and the UK. Recently appointed as Food Editor of AN Editions imprint online magazine Ars Notoria, he writes and publishes monthly articles.

His first book, Fresh Spice, published by Pavilion (with co-edition Wild Spice in the US through Sterling Gourmet), showcased the unique way he views and cooks with spices. His second book, Jhatpat Fatafat, Indian Cooking in Ten Minutes and Other Stories is due out later this year. There’s much more to Arun than meets the eye. His passion for the science of spice, flavour combination and achieving the best from raw products is second to none.

22/08/2024

Heading up to for this year’s Dalkey Lobster Festival 2024 . I’m demoing at 3pm, Saturday 24th, my ‘Malabar Lobster, Fusilli noodles, rich curried sauce. Cucumber, peach & basil ‘chaat’ salsa, lime juice’. Hope to see you there! This year in support of RNLI 💚

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/fepfajPJgiPN8BsR/?mibextid=WC7FNe

21/08/2024

Now here’s a thing…. I wrote an article. Sit down and have a read for yourself if you have a few mins, “Indian Cooking, the home, street, the palace”.

https://aneditions.com/2024/08/20/can-there-be-such-a-thing-as-an-indian-restaurant/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1XJ5v_SrAWq_jevFZAnmPCG6_xNszHqoGcUfEKSvaj3GzDKLdviiCishs_aem_wwWqSFKN7lc8vTmbRvgDvQ

Arun Kapil, the owner of Green Saffron Spices, photo Daragh McSweeney Indian Cooking: the Home, Street and Palace by Arun Kapil Can there be such a thing as an Indian restaurant? The whole Indian s…

18/07/2024

Drizzly day. Thought I’d try to bring a little sun. Here’s my Summer Fruit galette’ Tart’. Apricots, strawberries & raspberries, generous saffron, dollop of vanilla paste, fresh grind of black pepper, honey, sea salt, sprinkle of cornflour for soft set filling. Hurried a little with the pastry, so the folds offered plenty of opportunity for the sweetly tart saffron juices to run free

19/06/2024

Chicken & cabbage, then chocolate mousse and Anil’s delightfully boozy Rum Baba. Indulging in favourite flavours, enjoying times with my brother.

16/06/2024

Really cool to have been invited to the inaugural Oxford India symposium Saïd Business School, Oxford. Challenging, encouraging innovation, investment and collaboration in the field of sustainability and green solutions as 2030, 35 and 2050 loom closer. The time is now! ☘️💚

27/03/2024

▶️ Watch this video https://www.facebook.com/share/MQVxaDmy6oEqjrTx/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Meet Chef Arun, co-founder of Green Saffron, an Indian Spice business born in the food markets of County Cork. 🇮🇪

Arun and partner Olive Kapil started by making family and favourite Indian recipes and serving them to the people of Cork but weren’t always happy with the quality of spices available. And with a little digging, Arun discovered much of the spice available to buy was at least two years old, by the time it reaches our shelves… like most things, of course, fresh is best, and spices are no different! 🌱

Fresh spice means more flavour, better health benefiits, and in Indian cooking, more bang!

So Arun’s quest to bring the freshest, most flavourful spices to the island of Ireland began....

Photo taken Feb 2024 in Phalodi, Rajasthan 🇮🇳

14/03/2024

Such fun as ever in studio with the ace team RTÉ Today

26/01/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vd9d

For a little listen, can you answer the spicy questions? 📻☕️Swipe to 27mins and 30secs into the show you can listen to Arun pose questions to on the spice, cardamom for for BBC Radio 2

Phil officially ‘unofficially’ starts the weekend!