Organic Long Pepper

Available from Chef Shop when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Organic Long Pepper 2 oz bag Long pepper (Piper longum) actually begins life as a long cluster of tiny berries which then merge to a single, rod-like structure that bears some resemblance to catkins. Long pepper is native to India and probably came to Europe before the now dominant black pepper. It was highly prized and priced during the Roman Empire – about three times the price of black pepper. Long pepper is more pungent than black pepper, it has both sweet and hot characteristics that some