On Food and Cooking

sun-or machine-dried for several days, during which the outer fruit layer darkens. White pepper consists of the ...

drying. The flavor depends on the method of preservation, but includes some pungency and pepper aromatics as well ...

musty and horse-stable notes, probably from the prolonged fermentation of the fruit layer (skatole, cresol). ...

Pink Peppercorns Pink peppercorns are fruits of the Brazilian pepper tree, Schinus terebinthifolius, which ...

sansho both offer a strange and interesting version of pungency. They come from two small trees ...

a kind of general neurological confusion. The Chinese and Japanese versions of this spice are different. Chin ...

been used as food flavorings, including the herbs hoja santa and lolot (pp. 409, 410). Other notabl ...

to be more aromatic than Indian long pepper Cubeb or tailed pepper (P. cubeba). This version of pepper con ...

Star Anise Star anise is the strikingly star- shaped woody fruit of a tree in the magnolia family, ...

minutes, squeezing the fibrous mass, and straining off the flavored water; tamarind extract is ...

been used to color skin, clothing, and foods for ceremonies surrounding marriage and death. In the ...

preground, though fresh and dried rhizomes can be found in ethnic markets. Turmeric has a woody, dry earth ...

They sent it north to the Aztecs, who flavored their chocolate drinks with it (p. 695). The first Europea ...

three factors: the pod’s wealth of phenolic defensive compounds, preeminently vanillin; a good supply of s ...

phenolic-sugar storage compounds. The enzymes that can liberate the aromatic phenolics from storage ...

of vanilla — vanillin and related phenolic molecules — are freed from their bondage to sugar molecules. The ...

In the last stage of vanilla processing, the pods are straightened and smoothed by hand, dried for several we ...

vanillin, does suggest vanilla on its own, but without the whole spice’s richness. Some of the other ...

Vanilla Extracts and Flavorings Vanilla extracts are made by chopping whole vanilla beans and repeat ...

The Virtues of Vanillin In addition to making vanilla taste like vanilla, vanillin is formed during cert ...