Ark of taste (Slowfood)

With the Ark of Taste, the Slow Food Foundation aims to protect and promote products of exceptional local significance. The list includes products of global renown, but also many relatively unknown products, some of which are only available in the region. Examples of "major brands" include Voatsipery pepper from Madagascar and Kampot pepper from Cambodia. Lesser-known peppers include the Taiwanese maqaw, which we sell. and a 'small' Sarawak pepper from the village on the Rimbas River in this part of Malaysia - which we unfortunately do not sell, just when the flower pepper comes out Qingxi. This last one, the anthoxylum bungeanum, is very similar in quality to the Hunnan pepper we sell.

The latest addition to the Slow Food collection is merquén (merkén), the addictive, classic chili powder.