Watkins Pepper
If you love spicy food, and appreciate the difference that quality gourmet taste brings to your table, Watkins pepper will be an memorable part of your cooking and dining experience. I am very qualified to speak on this subject, because I love hot and spicy food. I am one of those people who looks for Mexican restaurants that serve the hottest and spiciest salsa. My family and friends are often amazed, because I put lots of pepper on almost everything I eat, including my salads. I love pepper.
Watkins pepper is by far the best you will ever find. The flavor is so intense, so fresh that the difference is striking when you smell it. Take any regular store brand, and do a "sniff test" side by side with Watkins. The taste and aroma is amazing when you experience it for the first time.
Watkins pepper has been famous for over one hundred years. Watkins sources the very best peppercorns that are available worldwide, and carefully screens them for twigs and other useless fillers before they are processed. Malabar and Lampong peppercorns (the strongest in flavor) are used in the Watkins pepper manufacturing process because they retain more of their intense flavor after granulation. The Malabar peppercorn is imported from the coast of India, and the Lampong is harvested in Indonesia.
Watkins uses an exclusive technique that processes each berry into distinct particles as opposed to crushing them or grinding them into dust like most other pepper manufacturing processes do. Watkins' exclusive process doesn’t create as much friction as others, thus keeping evaporation and loss of essential oils (from the heat) to a minimum. The result is a pepper that has remained widely recognized and appreciated as the best available for many years.
A History of Pepper
History records that pepper has been used as a spice in India since prehistoric times. It was most likely first cultivated on the Malabar Coast of India. Peppercorns were a much prized trade good, and considered a valuable commodity.
During the time of the Roman Empire, pepper was considered so valuable that it was often used as collateral or even currency. The taste for pepper (and the appreciation of its monetary value) was passed on to those who were instrumental in the fall of Rome as a world power. Legend has it that both Attila the Hun and Alaric the Visigoth demanded from Rome a ransom of more than a ton of pepper when they attacked and besieged the city in the 5th century A.D.
During the Middle Ages when the pepper trade was dominated by the Portuguese and the Dutch, pepper was worth more than gold by weight, and individual peppercorns were widely accepted as legal currency. Workers who worked with pepper were issued clothes without pockets or cuffs to prevent theft.
Until well after the Middle Ages, virtually all of the black pepper found in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa traveled there from India’s Malabar region. Today, black pepper remains a valuable and precious commodity on world trade markets.
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