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Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed.
The amount of piperine varies from 1–2% in long pepper, to 5–10% in commercial white and black peppers. [6] [7] Piperine can also be prepared by treating the solvent-free residue from a concentrated alcoholic extract of black pepper with a solution of potassium hydroxide to remove resin (said to contain chavicine, an isomer of piperine). [7]
The Spice Trail is a British television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2011 looking at the discovery and history of spices.Presented by Kate Humble, she travels around the world to see how spices are made and investigates their history.
Michael R. Waters from Texas A&M University along with a group of graduate and undergraduate students began excavating the Debra L. Friedkin Site in Bell County, Texas in 2006. The site is located 250 metres (820 ft) downstream along Buttermilk Creek from the Gault site ; a Paleo-Indian site excavated in 1998 and found to have deeply stratified ...
A spice market in Nasiriyah displaying certain spices.. The history of spices reach back thousands of years, dating back to the 8th century B.C. Spices are widely known to be developed and discovered in Asian civilizations.
Hot guts are made with beef and beef tallow, and are seasoned with salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper. [9] [10] The recipe is influenced by the settlement of Germans in Texas, who brought a distinct style of sausage-making to Central Texas. [11] The sausages are smoked over oakwood, and sold both fresh and precooked.
How did a young Jewish woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in the late 1930s end up in New York and emerge as one of the most dynamic illustrators of comic books a few years later?
There is a record from Tamil texts of Greeks purchasing large sacks of black pepper from India, and many recipes in the 1st-century Roman cookbook Apicius make use of the spice. The trade in spices lessened after the fall of the Roman Empire, but demand for ginger, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg revived the trade in later centuries. [19]