Re: [CH] tellicherry
Jim Bardsley (bardsljr@umdnj.edu)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:51:53 -0100
If you ever get a chance to stock on black peppercorns from Ponape ( PON-uh-pay),
an island in Micronesia, by all means do so. They're wonderfully rich and pungent,
and to my evaluation have more 'taste' than most black pepper- really great for
peppercrusted steaks and so on.
-Jim
> >
>
> Tellicherry pepper is one of the highest grades of black pepper and is
> harvested along the Malabar coast of India. Another high quality
> peppercorn is Lampong. They are both the dried, slightly underripe berries
> which grow in grape-like clusters on the climbing vine Piper nigrum.
>
> Good luck with the inspection!
>
>
> =Mark
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> I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me
> than a pre-frontal lobotomy...