Alagarsamy Masala Foods

Our shop, Alagarsamy Masala Foods, is sitting at 2/15 in Melapatti, over in Odaipatti. It’s a quiet place, not like the big cities. We’ve been here for years, dealing with masalas and food. Most of the people around here are neighbors or people we’ve known forever. We don't have a big factory, just our small place where we do the grinding and mixing. The smell of the spices is always strong in the air, you can smell it from down the road. We use what we have and do our best with it. Sometimes the rain makes it hard to dry things out, so we have to watch the weather closely. It’s a lot of manual work, lifting sacks and measuring out the ingredients by hand. We don't have a website or any of that. We just rely on people knowing us in Melapatti. The building is old but it’s sturdy and keeps the sun off the goods. We wake up early to start the work before it gets too hot. There’s a lot of tradition in how we do things, passed down through the family. We aren't looking to become some huge corporation. We just want to keep making our masalas for the local folks who need them. It’s a simple life and we’re happy with how things are going here in Odaipatti. We don't need much more than our grinders and some good quality seeds to keep us going every single day. It's hard but honest work for us.