Classics

Humans have been using pepper for thousands of years, as a medicine and as a flavoring. The oldest pepper-growing region 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 pepper from Malabar was found in his nostrils. It is not known to this day whether pepper was used only for embalming or also as a flavoring.

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