Pickled Peppers and Peppercorns from Around the Globe

Posted by Jacqueline Church Aug 15, 2006

Peppers and peppercorns have been valued all over the world. Join me as I reach back to my paternal Hungarian roots and discover Hungarian Hot Wax Peppers. Learn about Scoville units and how peppers' heat is measured.

We'll also travel the globe and discover dried peppercorns from Cambodia, Ecuador and India.

Peppercorns have been so highly valued in the past that they were traded as currency. Sailors on the spice route were often required to sew up pockets and forego wearing cuffs when entering dockside restaurants for fear they would abscond with the prized commodity.

My new pickled peppers are so good, you may want to dole them out judiciously, too. Perhaps it's the capsaicin we have to blame, but they are definitely something you can get hooked on!