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Pirate Mike’s partners with global suppliers to bring you the finest quality spices and gourmet products from around the world. We specialize in Kosher and Halal ingredients. Pirate Mike’s offers spice blends, rice blends, rubs, hot sauces, and vanilla. Mike Asaad, the founder, has traveled the globe learning trade secrets and finding hidden treasures. He is passionate about creating and manufacturing new cutting-edge products. For over 30 years Pirate Mike’s has been serving the food-service industry. Our clients are a wide variety of impressive world class chefs, and they all agree that once you use our products you will never go back to ordinary. Pirate Mike’s was founded by a third generation spice trader from North Africa. He has spent three lifetimes traveling to the far reaches of the globe learning their ancient secrets, and hidden treasures that define a world filled with magnificent flavors. A spice trader, chef, Food Science Engineer, founder and visionary. Mike is a perfectionist, and an advocate of healthy, fresh, nutritionally sound foods. Mike also happens to be a close friend to the finest agricultural minds around the world. Because of this Pirate Mike’s has the very best global partners to bring you the finest quality spices, and gourmet products in the world. He is constantly creating / manufacturing new healthy food ideas. He designed and built a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. These attributes have led Pirate Mikes to be the company it is today. We also offer Rice Blends, Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, & the most high-tech Hot Sauces you will ever taste. (Pirate Mike has specially designed them to give you a Hot & Spicy sensation to the brink of pain. Then, just before your taste buds have had enough, the heat fades away and you are left with the most amazing flavors. A lot of hot sauces cannot boast this claim. Pirate Mike has a degree in Science to back up his recipes.) “Be thankful for everything God has given us. Work hard, be generous in actions and spirit.  Never get discouraged by failure.” As Thomas Edison once said in pursuit of the light bulb. “Each time you fail you discover what works, and what doesn’t work. Keep looking for what works!” Pirate Mike’s