Nutmeg is Grenada's most famous spice. It grows inside a fruit that looks a bit like a peach. When the fruit splits open, you find a shiny brown seed wrapped in a bright red lacy covering called mace - and both the seed and the mace are used as spices. Nutmeg even appears on the Grenadian flag, making it the only national flag in the world to feature a spice.
Cinnamon comes from the inner bark of special trees. Workers carefully peel the bark away and leave it to dry in the sun. As it dries, it curls naturally into the sticks you might recognise from your kitchen. Grenada's volcanic soil and warm tropical rain give the spices a rich, strong flavour that chefs and food makers all over the world seek out.
Visiting a spice plantation in Grenada feels like walking through a giant kitchen. You can hold a whole nutmeg, scratch a cinnamon stick and smell the difference between fresh allspice and cloves. Local workers can identify every spice just by sniffing the air, the way a baker knows exactly what is in the oven without looking.