About Alden’s
Mill House
Established in 1984
A Family-Owned Spice Company Since 1984
Our History
Alden Mill House is a family-owned spice company that got its start almost by accident. Chef Geno, an American chef with European training, kept getting asked by customers for his special spice blends until he finally started selling them himself. That first blend, the Miracle Blend which was developed in 1963 got us started and then launched the business in 1984, and it’s still one of our best sellers today.
Chef Geno, whose real name was Eugene Moglovkin, had already made a name for himself in some of America’s finest clubs and restaurants, winning numerous awards and ribbons in culinary art shows from Michigan to Florida. But building a spice company took more than one person. His wife, Joy, was the business backbone who made it all actually happen, and their daughter Colleen continues to run the business today.
Over the years, Chef Geno developed and perfected dozens of custom seasoning blends, now numbering more than 42, each one carefully worked out rather than rushed to market. We still buy only the highest quality spices and kosher flake salt, with no trace of iodine to alter the flavor, and we grind, mix, label, and bottle everything ourselves.
It’s a matter of taste, and that’s been true since the very first batch of Miracle Blend left this building. Welcome to the Alden Mill House, home of the Pepper Mill Spices and the House of Good Taste. We hope you enjoy the gift of taste in every meal, the same way our customers have for over 40 years.
Today, Alden Mill House still operates out of Alden, Michigan, where visitors can shop in person seven days a week. Whether you’ve been a customer since the early days or you’re just discovering us now, we’re still doing things the same way Chef Geno started them: one carefully mixed batch at a time.