Black Pepper - King of Spices

While dining out and shopping for groceries, we noticed lack of fine pepper -- so we decided to take it upon ourselves to provide easy access to the best selection of whole and fine ground pepper as well as whimsical accessories from around the world.

Black Pepper - King of Spices

Pepper - https://unlimited-recipes.com/best-ground-peppers/ is perhaps the most versatile spice on earth. Cultivated and in high demand since antiquity, pepper was at one time used in place of currency.  It has long been believed to have medicinal qualities and its flavor is at home in most meat and vegetable dishes, and is even used in some dessert recipes!

You are encouraged to browse the pages of this site, which is designed to educate, amuse, inform and provide on everything pepper . 

Pepper is the common name for a family comprising a medium-sized group of shrubby or herbaceous flowering plants, and for its representative genus. The family contains between 5 and 10 genera and about 2000 species.

Black and white  pepper are both harvested from the  plant Piper nigrum, which is a climbing vine producing small berries on hanging spikes.

Scientific classification: Peppers make up the family Piperaceae of the order Piperales. Its representative genus is Piper.

Other species of the genus piper, less often commercially sold as black pepper, include P. trioicum, P. officinarum, AND P. longum. 

Origin/Region

The piper genus of plants is native to Southern India where it has been cultivated for more than 3000 years.  Currently, the world's top exporters of black pepper are India, Indonesia, Brazil and Malaysia and it is also cultivated in many other tropical regions of Asia and South America.