[Sca-cooks] Pepper

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Kathleen Gormanshaw wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Katja <katjaorlova at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> And long pepper is incorrectly defined as another kind of pepper, yet cubebs and grains of paradise *are* correctly defined as other dried berries. Why not just accurately define *all three* as pungent dried berries often used as we today use black pepper?
>> 
> 
> I hadn't seen that grains of paradise are dried berries before; I like
> grains of paradise, but I hate black pepper, so now I'm curious, what
> is black pepper ?

Long pepper, IIRC, is of the same genus as black pepper: piper longum as opposed to piper negrum... or has it, like the Pluto formerly known as a planet, been reclassified?

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