Black pepper

Black pepper is perhaps one of the most common spices in our cooking and are from the same bush and the same grain as white pepper, the difference is that white pepper is harvested ripe and black pepper are harvested unripe but then dried. Black pepper has been known in India since prehistoric times and was when the Europeans came to India a very expensive product. It was then called "black gold", a phrase we today might associate more with oil than black pepper.

The black pepper aroma is spicy, hot, fresh and peppery.