Curio Spice Co. built its reputation in Cambridge sourcing spices directly and ethically from small farms, and its Boston Public Market outpost hosts this hands-on Spice School in the market’s workshop space. The session opens with a short, genuinely interesting talk on flavor — built on curriculum from Curio’s founder — before you’re set loose at the blending bar, a spread of jars meant to evoke wandering a historic spice bazaar.

Guided by an instructor, you smell, taste, and layer your way to a personalized blend that you mix yourself and take home, with seasonal refreshments along the way. Groups stay small, and the format welcomes ages twelve and up, so it works for a date, a friends’ outing, or an adventurous kid who runs the family kitchen. Expect your cooking to get noticeably more ambitious afterward.