As salt is important in soup, so is pepper
for meat.
With pepper we have the choice of black,
white, green and more seldom red, it originates from India and
can be bought ground or in corns. Green and red pepper are usually
sold in corn form in salt water.
Pepper used to be a very expensive commodity.
Because of pepper, America was discovered, Columbus looking for
a new route to India stumbled across it in an attempt to break
the monopoly that Venice had over pepper
.
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