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Oaktown Spice Shop Launches Avocado Toast Gift Box

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Press contact:
Erica Perez
Oaktown Spice Shop
erica@oaktownspiceshop.com

OAKTOWN SPICE SHOP, FAMILY-OWNED MAKERS OF HAND-MIXED, ARTISANAL SPICE BLENDS, LAUNCHES AVOCADO TOAST GIFT BOX

Featuring four spice mixes that tap into this year’s most popular food trends, including Umami Sea Salt and Za’atar

(Oakland, CA, October 14, 2022) – As the holidays approach, Oaktown Spice Shop, family-owned maker of hand-mixed, artisanal spice blends, has launched a new Avocado Toast Gift Box. Bursting with savory flavors, this collection of four signature spice mixes speak to some of the year’s most popular food trends, featuring Umami Sea Salt, Za’atar, Bombay Orange and Eastern Mediterranean Spice. The new Oaktown Spice Shop Avocado Toast Gift Boxes retail at oaktownspiceshop.com or Oaktown Spice Shop’s three brick and mortar locations in northern California for $41.75 each.

Each spice blend in the Avocado Toast Gift Box is perfect for sprinkling and contains no fillers or artificial flavors. Umami Sea Salt, Bombay Orange and Eastern Mediterranean Spice are proprietary and one-of-a-kind. Every box is handmade, assembled in California and finished with cinnamon sticks and bay leaves to enhance each gift. The Avocado Toast Gift Box joins the line of 23 gift boxes designed for holiday gifting. Other Oaktown Spice Shop offerings include a full catalog of individual spices, teas, salts and chiles.

“Avocado toast is going strong, and we are here for it,” said co-founder Erica Perez, “The holiday season is the perfect time to give an edible gift, packed with the most popular flavor profiles of 2022, such as umami, the fifth taste that encapsulates what we think of as savory.”

About: With three locations in the East Bay, Oaktown Spice Shop sources its goods from hundreds of importers and offers everything from amchoor powder to single-origin wild asafoetida powder. Spices are ground and blends are mixed in-house. Family-owned and operated by husband and wife John Beaver and Erica Perez, Oaktown Spice Shop was named one of the top 10 spice shops in the world by Food & Wine and one of the best online spice shops by Bon Appetit. Oaktown Spice Shop is based in Oakland, California.

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A Year in the Life of the Spice Shop - a note about reopening

In March 2020, as the county shelter in place order came down, we closed our doors to the public and shifted completely online in order to protect our staff and the community.

A Note from Erica and John

We are outraged and disgusted by the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. We recognize that these are just the latest names in a horrifyingly long list. That these are not isolated events, but the product of a racist and unjust system. We wholeheartedly support the protesters.

We are not experts on how to solve systemic racism and police violence. But we want the shops to be safe spaces for people to talk about these issues and what we can do as individuals and as a company to work on solutions. This week we held meetings with staff at both our Oakland and Albany shops to seek their valued feedback on how Oaktown Spice Shop can be a better community member and anti-racist organization. We have work to do.

This will be an ongoing process as we figure out how best to do this.

For starters, Oaktown Spice Shop will DONATE 20% of this week's sales to Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union, from today until Tuesday, June 16.

We will also match our employees' contributions to these organizations this month.

This won't be a one-time occurrence. We are working on a plan to donate regularly to anti-racist causes in a way that is sustainable for the long-term.

As individuals and as business owners, we are recommitting ourselves to studying anti-racism, raising anti-racist children, interrogating ourselves and holding ourselves accountable for the ways in which we benefit from and contribute to systemic racism.

With gratitude for your community and support,
Erica and John

Third Oaktown Spice Shop Location in Castro Valley Scheduled for 2020

As many of you know (and some of you might not), we are planning a third retail shop location in the soon-to-be-built Castro Valley Marketplace!

Oaktown Spice Shop to open in Castro Valley Marketplace

We are excited to announce that we will be opening our third Oaktown Spice Shop location in the soon-to-be-built Castro Valley Marketplace! Scheduled for opening in Fall 2019, Castro Valley Marketplace will be an artisanal food hall and community gathering space in downtown Castro Valley.