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Pohnpei Gourmet White Peppercorns	Please give us your opinion about this product. List Price: $10.99 Our Price: $9.99 You Save $1.00! Origin State: Oregon Origin Country: Micronesia Availability: Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days Product Code: POHNPEI1002 Qty:

Description Package / Nutritional / Other Company Story   Used by famous Chefs and restaurants all over the world, Pohnpei gourmet whole black peppercorns have a flavor you have to taste to believe. Simply...the best pepper in the world.   Ninety percent of the world's pepper comes from only four countries---India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Malaysia. Pohnpei will never play in those big leagues; the island has 130 square miles of total area, and only 40 acres is planted in pepper. The Pohnpei Agricultural Station imported 300 rooted pepper cuttings in 1960. The cuttings came from Fiji, but the plant variety originated in Malaysia's Sarawak. They were of a gourmet-quality strain, and they loved life on Pohnpei. Pohnpei has the perfect conditions for perfect pepper What pepper vines love might not seem idyllic to people. They need a lot of water---100 inches of rain a year minimum. The rain should be distributed evenly over all twelve months; they don't tolerate a dry season. They also like it hot. An equatorial heat and high humidity suits them perfectly. Pohnpei lies near 10 degrees north; it has only three totally clear days in a typical year, and no dry season.   The story on of the milder white pepper, farmers harvest fully ripe red berries. The berries sit fermenting in water for eight days, then have their red skins rubbed off. After being washed and dried, the white peppercorns are also baked or sun-dried, but only until they turn a creamy tan color.

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