Our journey
Spices from a life cooked across 70+ countries — mapped back to the table.
Our Journey
These spices tell the story of my life and travels cooking around the world.
Collected Foods is Chef Rob Springer — a professional chef and spice entrepreneur who has cooked in more than 70 countries. Small-batch. NYC chef-crafted. Pouches built for home cooks who want premium flavor, not commodity aisle filler.
The blends come from real kitchens and real tables — farmhouse kitchens, street markets, braai pits — and from the slow craft Jasmine first taught at home: sauce from scratch, taste as you go, feed the people you love. Every pouch is meant to map back to the table.
Seventy countries. One table.
Travel taught the palate. Fatherhood gave it a reason to be written down. Each blend is a chapter you can cook — not a passport-stamp wall, a map back to meals that mattered.
From the kitchen that became a book
Rob’s memoir, The Table That Held Us — a memoir in meals from father to son — is currently on submission to publishers. It is not yet published. Soft updates live at thetablethatheldus.com.
Press
Rose Harissa was featured in Cook with Bon Appétit. (That callout is for Rose Harissa only — not the whole line.)