Wild Cinnamon Quills

Name: Wild Cinnamon Quills
Brand: Diaspora Co. Spices
SKU: WCQ-75-C-W
Price: 20.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$20

75g

These Sri Lankan cinnamon quills are spicier and sweeter than anything you've tried before!

What we’re cooking

Cinnamon Tea

Chicken Pulao

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"The most incredible cinnamon, it doesn't compare to anything else I've tried!"

"I was surprised by how large these are and how easy they are to crush."

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Pesticide-free

Regeneratively grown

No irradiation

Cooking tips

Brew a cup of ginger, cinnamon, and clove tea.

Add 1½ cups water and 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half, 8 to 10 cloves, and a couple slices fresh ginger in a saucepan, bring to a boil, cover, let steep for 10 minutes, strain, sweeten with honey, if desired, and enjoy.

Use in curries, soups, stew, and slow-cooked braises.

Cinnamon sticks are great for dishes where you want to slowly infuse layered warmth into the dish, like country chicken curry, pho, chili, and even a big ol’ pot of beans.

Grind with coffee beans for cinnamon-infused coffee.

Break half a cinnamon quill into pieces and add it to whole coffee beans before grinding. When brewed, the warm, fragrant flavor of the spice will permeate the coffee.

Make the best rice pudding.

Use in your favorite rice pudding recipe, but steep the warm milk with a broken cinnamon stick and a halved vanilla bean for 1 hour before straining and using in the recipe, as directed. You can also use this technique in other milk-based desserts.

Ingredients

100% Wild Cinnamon Quills

Potential Allergens: Coconut

Shipping & Returns

Domestic US: We’ve updated our shipping model to be more accessible to folks who just want to restock a tin or two. Here's how our weight-based tiered shipping works:
$5 — under 0.5 lb aka most orders with 1-2 base tins
$7 — between 0.5 and 1 lb aka most orders with 3-4 base tins or 1 chef tin
$9 — everything else! Shipping is free if your cart value exceeds $75!
For more information and our return policy, click here!

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Single Origin

Fair Wages

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Freshest Harvest

Highest Quality

Grown in
Digana, Sri Lanka

There are two types of cinnamon: Sri Lankan cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) or “true cinnamon”, and Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia), its less expensive, one-note cousin. Ours is 100 per cent Sri lankan cinnamon, from the Kandyan Forest Gardens of Sri Lanka–the highest quality of cinnamon in the world.

It is sourced by Ekoland, a community initiative that works with farmers and their families to grow food in a way that conserves the biodiverse forests and native flora of Kandy.

Harvesting and quilling cinnamon is a highly skilled task. First the branches of the Cinnamomum verum tree are pruned, then the outer bark is cleaned, and finally, the precious inner bark is peeled, and carefully rolled into long, slender quills. All done by hand.

The long, slender cinnamon quills are both sweet and spicy, adding a lingering aroma and flavour to savoury cooking - a gift from the Kandyan forest gardens of Sri Lanka, home to monkeys, hornbills, and barking deer.

Recipes For You

All the delicious ways to use this spice!

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Kanchan's Cauliflower Rice Vegetable Pulao

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Massaman (Matsaman) Curry

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Sana's Kadak Spicy Chai

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Tejal's Turmeric Tea

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Roohi's Zafran Kahwa (Kashmiri Saffron Tea)

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Khushbu's Khichdi

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Mithalee's Ayurvedic Bone Broth

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Asha's Spiced Lamb Meatballs with Peas & Spring Onions

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Uzair’s Dilliwala Korma (Delhi-Style Chicken Korma)

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Chitra's Rajma

"Most of their spices have a chance of changing your life"

"Diaspora Co.’s spices reward farmers directly for scrupulous farming, and rewards consumers with [spices] that redefine the categories themselves."

"It’s a small but true joy to change my relationship with a common spice I’d so taken for granted."

"Most of their spices have a chance of changing your life"

"Diaspora Co.’s spices reward farmers directly for scrupulous farming, and rewards consumers with [spices] that redefine the categories themselves."

"It’s a small but true joy to change my relationship with a common spice I’d so taken for granted."

"Most of their spices have a chance of changing your life"

"Diaspora Co.’s spices reward farmers directly for scrupulous farming, and rewards consumers with [spices] that redefine the categories themselves."

"It’s a small but true joy to change my relationship with a common spice I’d so taken for granted."

What Sets Us Apart

		Conventional Grocery Store	Other Spice Companies
Single Origin	Sourced directly from our partner farms	Never	Usually from bulk importers
Pay Farmers Living Wages	3x - 5x the commodity price	Never	Very little transparency
Guaranteed Freshest Harvest	Harvest dates on every tin	Often 5-7 years old!	No transparency
Highest Quality Standards	No pesticides, no fillers, always lab tested	Never	Cheap filler ingredients

Frequently Asked Questions

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Are all your spices organic?

Our farm partners have been cultivating spices using practices that go "beyond organic" for well over five years. Although they haven't obtained USDA certification yet, this is primarily because the initial certification can be costly and may lead to cycles of debt. To meet USDA standards, four years of inspections and certificates are required after the first certification. However, we consider this process redundant and unnecessary since we conduct thorough testing on every batch we procure. It's a prerequisite for Diaspora Co. to select farm partners whose soil health and agricultural practices align with our internal standards of growing food regeneratively.

When do the spices expire? How long do they last?

Most of the spices are good 2 years from the mill date, which is listed on the harvest label sticker on the jar or bag. That being said, our spices are extremely potent and fresh as we take incredible care to source yearly and aim for quality, so 2 years is our most conservative guideline, compared to most spices in the grocery store which are often 5-10 years old upon purchase.

Do you sell wholesale?

We do! You can search for our wholesalers using our store locator here. And if you are a wholesaler and don’t see yourself on the locator, please email wholesale@diasporaco.com and we will add you to this ASAP! Thank you!

What is the best way to store the spices?

Store them in an airtight container in a dark, dry place. Do not store spices in direct sunlight, as this will shorten their shelf life.