Help, I need to buy peppercorns.
Jun 20, 2022, 4:46 am
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I was introduced to cubeb pepper yesterday.
Looks a little like black pepper, except it has a sort of membrane around it and remains attached to a bit of stalk (apparently an alternative name is tailed pepper for this reason).
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a single ingredient that had so many layers of pungent, aromatic flavours.
That I can still remember the intimate little journey that one cubeb pepper “corn” took me on just before I submitted myself to the sucker punch of an assault from a confidently filled betel leaf is testament to the culeb pepper’s thrilling uniqueness.
Looks a little like black pepper, except it has a sort of membrane around it and remains attached to a bit of stalk (apparently an alternative name is tailed pepper for this reason).
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a single ingredient that had so many layers of pungent, aromatic flavours.
That I can still remember the intimate little journey that one cubeb pepper “corn” took me on just before I submitted myself to the sucker punch of an assault from a confidently filled betel leaf is testament to the culeb pepper’s thrilling uniqueness.
