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Rupert Derham

Rupert Derham

Founder of Spice Dept, a UK spice brand focused on fresh, single-origin, sustainably sourced spices.

Aug 5, 2026

2:31
Yeah, so it does sound a bit mad to think
2:33
that Spice Department started as a failed cheese company, but it really did.
2:38
And in 2015, I had the slightly wacky idea to move to India, having been there for the first time in 2011, and it got completely under my skin.
2:46
And I just wanted to be involved in India in some way and thought that the Indian... wine businesses were growing massively and there was a huge kind of spike in consumption of wine.
2:59
So I thought, what goes really nicely with wine? Cheese.
3:02
Actually, you know, when we'd been to India, you couldn't find good British hard cheese.
3:06
So I thought, oh, there's a slightly wacky idea.

13 MINS LATER

16:11
How do you instill that and also make sure that as you get bigger, that doesn't disappear?

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