Wasabi
Wasabi is a peppery cousin to horseradish that is not for the faint of heart cook. The flavor is quite intense and even eye watering but then drops off.
This is the classic condiment for Japanese sushi.
It is usually eaten in paste form. To mak…
White Pepper
White pepper is obtained from the small dried berry of the vine Piper Nigrum. For white pepper, the berry is picked when fully ripe. The outer layer of shrunken skin is removed, leaving the dried, grayish-white kernel. It has a milder, more delicate …
White Peppercorns
White peppercorns are soaked in water, which softens the shells, whereupon the shells are removed. Their flavor, while still distinctly pepper, is different from that of black peppercorns. In this country we consume about twelve times as much black p…