RE: [CH] Black Pepper, why???
Karen Oland (koland@staffingtech.com)
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:04:10 -0500
black pepper is "old world", the chile peppers are "new". So, traditional
cooking from Europe uses black pepper almost exclusively. Also, they don't
have to worry about varying results when you can't find the right pepper or
when hybridization has changed that innocent looking jalepeno into a
firecracker.
-----Original Message-----
> Watching Emerils' Christmas Special on Food Network, I noticed something.
All
> of these cooking shows use a lot of "black pepper". Why?? With all of the
> wonderful, and varied chile peppers on the planet, why is everyone stuck
on
> "black pepper"? They do use cayanne once in a while, but you never seem to
> see them use chipotle, or dried habenero, or dried anything else. I guess
> that leaves more for us!
>
> Mike Shimek