Black pepper, which comes from the Sanskrit word pippali, was once known as black gold.It has one of the longest histories as a sought-after spice, due to its ability to flavor foods, act as a ...

Black pepper is often used in dishes that are already colorful. If the dish already has a lot of elements in it, ... Both black and white peppercorns are berries from the piper nigrum plant.

A visiting agronomy researcher on Saturday told farmers and other residents at a forum that black pepper, often called the ...

White pepper, while less common in Western cooking, plays a prominent role in certain cuisines. In Chinese cooking, it is a ...

Pepper grows as clusters of pea-size berries on a tropical vine called Piper nigrum. On rich, steamy plantations of Netherlands East Indies, British India, Borneo, French Indo-China and Siam ...

But while peppers come from plants in the nightshade family, which includes potatoes and tomatoes, peppercorns spawn from a ...

Q: Can pepper corn plants (Piper nigrum) be grown in Texas? Where can I buy the plants? — P.M., Houston A: Possibly, but this South Asian tropical vine is cold-hardy to Zone 10. Most of the ...