The penchant for possessing the world’s most luxurious spices, commercialised by East Indian Trading companies in the 1600’s, has shifted from high sea endeavours, the fascination of faraway lands, and struggles for ‘spice stock market supremacy’, into a mainstream malaise of mass-produced spice packets and tea bags of all varieties. Despite the swipe and pay ease of availability, the historical racketeering and skulduggery associated with trading spice routes, and the smuggling of the ‘illicit’, remains an allure embedded in history books, block buster movies, and the…