Collection: Classics

Humans have been using for thousands of years pepper. As a medicine and as a flavoring. The oldest pepperThe area is undoubtedly Malabar, on the west coast of India.

Ramses II, one of the greatest pharaohs of ancient Egypt, died in 1212 BC and was mummified. In Black was found in his nostrils pepper on, originating from Malabar. Or the pepper It is not known to date whether it was used only during embalming, or also as a flavoring.

In Europe they made in the knowledge of antiquity pepper, with African pepper and pepper came from India to Africa and from there ended up in Europe. Until that peppers African cubebs belongedpepper, long pepper from Ethiopia and India, grains of paradise from the Greyn Coast. This peppers and the peppers We offer what we became acquainted with in the East Indies under the heading 'classics':