This native Mediterranean region herb is widely used as a seasoning in Greek, Spanish and Italian cooking. Ideal as a distinctive flavor in salad dressings and as a main ingredient in tomato based sauces, grilled meat, poultry and shellfish. The company was started by Jos? Bad?a, a Cuban exile who fled the island nation in the 1960s. Though he had a hardware business in Cuba, started the spice business in a small shop in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. In 1970, Jos? hired his son, Joseph Pepe"