[Sca-cooks] long pepper, was To Make a Fine Spice

[Michael Acord]

To tag onto a prior post.... Does anyone know where (or if) it is 
possible to find <Benin pepper>?

Kirsten Houseknecht wrote:

>the pepperers guild has it......
>i believe Auntie Arwyn, of Crystal Connection and Auntie Arwyn's Spices also
>has it....
>and i *bet* you could mail order it from some other specialty sources.
>Kirsten Houseknecht
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>>>And i finally tasted long pepper on its own. > >At first there was no
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>flavor and i thought maybe mine was stale - after all
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>>>i had bought about 8 oz in Morocco in Jan 2001, and it's been tied up in
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>a
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>>>bag that was tied up in another bag that had been hidden in an unpacked
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>box
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>>>since August 2001. But then it began to release a peppery flavor with a
>>>*really* hot bite (like good quality dried ground ginger AND chili) that
>>>was sustained and some of the, how shall i say, nose, of wasabi.
>>>Hoo-boy-howdy! NOTHING like black pepper. I gotta use it more! If only i
>>>had a reliable source for it (the only place i know of is World Spice in
>>>Seattle, and they don't always have it).
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