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January 15, 2021 5:30 PM   Subscribe

“Agriculture needs young people, needs motivation, and no one wants to go out to be confronted by a group of men holding guns,” says Umer Sami, an aspiring Pampore entrepreneur who wants to boost the presence of Kashmiri saffron in the online marketplace. “Young men have either begun to take up arms and stones against the struggle, or just stay home. Think about it — in your 20s, you live in one of the most violent places in the world. Would you do something that ties you to its land, or something that gets you out?” Sharanya Deepak writes for Eater about the intertwined fates of saffron and Kashmir.
posted by ChuraChura (5 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
(link is via the Diaspora Co newsletter - Diaspora Co sell spices and are working "to create a radically new, and equitable vision of the spice trade, decolonizing a commodity back into a seasonal crop, and a broken system into an equal exchange.")
posted by ChuraChura at 5:34 PM on January 15, 2021 [2 favorites]


Thank you! This is great, and I'd love to support this kind of work directly, so even better :)
posted by esoteric things at 6:28 PM on January 15, 2021


I'm on the Diaspora list for coriander and cardamom and plan to buy saffron there too, thank you!
posted by esoteric things at 6:39 PM on January 15, 2021


Just ordered saffron yesterday from Diaspora Co. I have their black pepper, turmeric, coriander seed, cardamom, haldi doodh, black pepper chocolate, cocoa, and caramel date syrup, and can confirm that everything is truly incredible. Highly recommend! Thanks for this post, OP.
posted by wicked_sassy at 4:04 AM on January 16, 2021


That was a really good read, and thanks for the link to Diaspora Co.'s newsletter, too.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 7:40 AM on January 16, 2021


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