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Jan 21, 2014 · A Brief History of Pepper. The world’s most commonly used spice, Piper nigrum, starts life as berries in a clump on a flowering vine (like grapes). Native to Southern India, today pepper is grown throughout the tropics. Archaeological evidence of people using pepper goes back to at least 2000 BC in India. It is known that pepper was exported ...
Jun 11, 2019 · Interesting fact is, in the absence of a toothbrush and toothpaste, people used spices to remove or at least reduce the bad breath. Pepper was very good for this purpose because, except for the strong flavour, it was believed that it had antiseptic properties. Here is another reason for the demand for pepper, medical.
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Jun 14, 2007 · The chilies, which probably came from Brazil via Lisbon, quickly spread through the subcontinent, where they were used instead of black pepper. In Thailand, a short-lived Portuguese presence failed to convert the locals to Christianity but succeeded in revolutionizing the Thai kitchen. European traders introduced the spice to Japan.
Black pepper ( Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn ), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed.
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The Portuguese steak, bife, is a slice of fried beef or pork marinated in spices and served in a wine-based sauce with fried potatoes, rice, or salad. An egg, sunny-side up, may be placed on top of the meat, in which case the dish acquires a new name, bife com ovo a cavalo (steak with an egg on horseback).
Jan 10, 2020 · In this pepper, the individual seeds are embedded in a long catkin (inflorescence), hence the name long pepper. It’s the catkin that is ground up and used in cooking. Another true pepper used in cooking is cubeb or tailed pepper (P. cubeba), but it is practically unknown outside of the Orient. Chili peppers come from a totally different plant.
Peppers come in a very wide range of shapes, colors, sizes and heat intensity. The mildest, sweetest varieties are the fruit of the bell pepper plant, which are found in a rainbow of colors, ranging from green to red to purple-black. Chile peppers can be teeny tiny, like the diminutive (and colorfully named) mouse-dropping chile from Southeast ...
