"Our regional cuisine is known for its spice blends, but I can certainly find a place with good, but blander food."

Peruvian cooks have a way with rotisserie birds, thanks to the country's Chinese immigrants, who introduced exotic spice blends.

He also distributes his own collection of spice blends.

In foods, fenugreek is included as an ingredient in spice blends.

"Not counting my own secret spice blends," Sisko grinned.

There is even a section on assembling spice blends, and one on fanciful gift wraps.

In the first years of the company's existence, Urban Accents focused solely on developing spice blends.

Now, they manufacture over 100 different items today and are still best known for some of their first spice blends.

The company's Web site, canonicaverde.com, also offers Umbrian honey and spice blends.

The shop also makes its own mixture of pure spices and doesn't use premixed spice blends.