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Black pepper

black peppercorn

Family: Black pepper

Literally "Portuguese pepper". Resinous heat, not chilli heat. The backbone of mishkaki marinades

Cooked with in 184 dishes across 27 food worlds

West Africa · 5 dishes

Central Africa · 3 dishes

The Horn · 10 dishes

North Africa · 10 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 3 dishes

Southern Africa · 5 dishes

The Levant and Anatolia · 15 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 7 dishes

Persia and the Caucasus · 5 dishes

The Indian subcontinent · 19 dishes

The Sinosphere · 4 dishes

Mainland Southeast Asia · 7 dishes

Maritime Southeast Asia · 8 dishes

Korea and Japan · 1 dishes

Central Asia and the steppe · 10 dishes

The Mediterranean · 5 dishes

France and the Alps · 1 dishes

Central Europe · 5 dishes

The Nordics and the Baltic · 4 dishes

The Slavic east and the Balkans · 8 dishes

Britain and Ireland · 11 dishes

Mesoamerica · 10 dishes

The Caribbean · 6 dishes

The Andes · 2 dishes

North America · 15 dishes

Mainland Brazil · 4 dishes

Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia · 1 dishes

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