About Us

About Us – Zorica Spices

Namaste and welcome to Zorica Spices,
a small father-daughter dream born in the narrow lanes of Khari Baoli, Old Delhi, Asia’s largest wholesale spice and dry-fruits market.

My name is Chef Kapil Kumar, and for the last 27 years I have cooked in some of India’s finest five-star hotel kitchens.  I have roasted, ground, and balanced masalas for thousands of plates. But the spices that always made my food truly sing? The ones I hand-picked myself every week from the very shops my father and grandfather trusted in Khari Baoli.

This shop is named after my 7-year-old daughter, Zorica. Every evening when I come home, she runs to the kitchen, stands on her little stool, and smells the fresh masala I brought from the market. Her eyes light up and she says, “Papa, yeh wali khushboo toh bilkul dadi ke ghar jaisi hai!” (Papa, this smells exactly like grandma’s house!)

That innocent happiness is what I wanted to bottle and send to every home in India.

So I left the big hotel kitchens and came back to the lanes I grew up in. Today, the same traders who supplied my family for three generations supply Zorica Spices. I personally select every chilli, every clove, every almond, exactly the way I did when I was cooking for presidents and film stars, only now I do it for you and your family.

What you get in every Zorica Spices packet:
– 100 % pure, unadulterated spices and dry fruits – no colours, no fillers, no polishing agents
– Roasted and ground the same week they reach you (not sitting in godowns for months)
– The exact same quality I would serve my own daughter or put on a five-star table
– Packed with love in food-grade pouches and shipped fast from Delhi

We are still a small family business. I taste every new batch myself. Zorica sticks the “Papa approved” sticker on the packets that pass her smell test (she’s tougher than most food critics!).

When you cook with Zorica Spices, you’re not just buying masala, you’re bringing home the real taste and aroma of Old Delhi’s 400-year-old spice bazaar, straight from a father who has spent almost three decades chasing perfect flavour, and a little girl who believes every kitchen should smell like love.

Thank you for letting us be part of your family meals.

From our home to yours,
Chef Kapil Kumar & Zorica age 7, Chief Smell Officer

P.S. Try our Khari Baoli Special Garam Masala once. If your kitchen doesn’t fill with the same magic Zorica runs after every evening, write to me personally. I’ll send you a fresh pack on the house. That’s my five-star promise.