Black pepper, salt's humble companion, has a fascinating age-old history. Learn all there is to know about sourcing, grinding, and using this common spice.

But how much do you know about its varieties and uses? Below, we explain the characteristics of each one and how to use them ...

According to The Pioneer Woman, white pepper and black pepper derive from Piper nigrum, a crop native to India. To make black peppercorns, farmers harvest small berries from the plant when they're ...

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 ...

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 ...

First of all, pink peppercorns, also known as red peppercorns, aren't peppercorns at all. They're not even related to the Piper nigrum plant, whose dried black berries fill our pepper mills.

ROBERTSON1 reported a serious root disease of unknown cause on black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) in Sarawak which, post-war, first attracted attention in 19522. Sundararaman3, Venkata Rao4, and ...