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 > > @ http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens @ > @ ICQ# 2059548 @ > > I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me > than a pre-frontal lobotomy...