Oaktown Spice newest shop sits on Glendale Blvd in Los Angeles. A couple miles up the same street, past a good number of twists and turns, is Wine + Eggs, a specialty food and wine shop run by Lesley and Jeremy.
That's how this started. Jeremy was walking home from the cookbook store, spotted a spice shop he'd never seen before, and came in. Somewhere between the shelves he saw the word popcorn on a recommendation card and thought: we should do something together.
Turns out popcorn has been part of the Wine + Eggs story from the start. Back when Jeremy was bartending (which is where he and Lesley first got to know each other) the popcorn was the thing.
"The room would stop when the popcorn ran out, and we'd have to run to the basement and make another double batch."
So we built a blend worthy of that room: salt, nutritional yeast, honey powder, black pepper, smoked Spanish paprika, sumac, and turmeric. Savory and a little cheesy, with smoke, a whisper of honey, and a bright hit of sumac at the end. Good on popcorn, obviously. Also good on fries, roasted vegetables, buttered noodles, and the rim of a very serious Bloody Mary.