• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    27 days ago

    The real tragedy of black pepper is that no one eats it as fresh berries. I was in a hot area suitable for growing it and had the berries before they get dried into pepper corns and they were amazing! Spicy and a bit sweet and nothing like the dried version.

    If only they weren’t so hard to grow outside certain zones

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      27 days ago

      Interesting!

      Due to the influence of Tasting History (Max Miller), this year I bought long pepper for use in a few recipes (currently marinating some shawarma) - that’s an interesting flavour, also a bit sweeter (dried) than (dried) round pepper.