You look at this humble spice and hard to believe that throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages, it was more valuable than gold.
Pepper, exotic spices were the first to reach the Mediterranean and the study is open lanes that become legendary ignited the imagination of people for nearly a thousand years - through silk, incense road trip around the Cape of Good Hope.
The search for the silk and spice trade was established, empires are built, caused by the discovery of new lands, and is reproduced better than fantastic journeys story mixed with extravagant believe in for good measure.
Stories in distant countries, with the Kings inflated and the palace of pure gold, animals not see and cows tasty depend on each branch, stories of gardens shaded and fountains paneled room speaks of tough fighters and beautiful women wrapped in silk dresses sparks color of the sun and ripe berries.
Pepper themselves were a status symbol, like a purple cloth, silk and fine cuisine precious metal, but the jungle birthplace of the Malabar coast of India, the plant is a vine that grows upright and wearing a floor-fiber bundles of red berries.
When pepper berries turn dry. Black Red and green ripe stay still turn red, while white pepper is done by removing the skins of red pepper.
Starting plants from seed is not easy, despite pepper with spice jars indeed as good as any seed. Those who want to experiment with the growth of clusters of pepper seeds to flood the acid bath to simulate the digestive processes that occur in the stomach of a bird. Most clusters pepper operated between carrots and must be replaced every seven or eight years.
