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[Decker, Terry D.]

Looking in Waverly Root's Food, the comment is made that Horace thought the
perfect general seasoning was black salt and white pepper.  Horace lived in
the 1st Century BCE, so white pepper should be in period.

Root does comment that green pepper was not known in the Occident before
W.W.II.

Bear

> White pepper and black pepper  from the same plant. White pepper has had
> the
> outer layer removed. The main reason to use white pepper is for foods that
> some folks would find objectionable with black spots flosting in them ,
> such
> as  cream soups or mashed potatos.
> 
> Whether whitepepper was known in the MA or not is unknown to me but I have
> not
> come across any reference to it in period sources so far.
> 
> Ras
> 
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