The Khari Baoli Spice Market in Old Delhi is the largest spice market in Asia. When I visited in early January I found myself wandering through narrow alleyways piled high with overflowing sacks of every spice imaginable. Rusting metal bowls contained samples of dozens of varieties of raisins, sugar crystals, cardamom pods, and dehydrated seaweeds. Old men wrapped in tattered shawls pushed 2-metre long wooden wheelbarrows laden with sacks of herbs down roadways so packed you