Do you remember eating something familiar, but it felt like you were tasting it for the first time? Maybe it was a perfectly ripe tomato still warm from the sun when you were accustomed to tomatoes that “ripened" on a shelf. Perhaps it was your first taste of fresh baked bread, or a properly seared steak. Unfamiliar quality from a familiar ingredient that flipped a switch from predictable to impossibly flavorful. Great ingredients can do that. You’re probably very familiar with black pepper, the mildly spicy black stuff next to the salt. Common. Predictable. Ordinary. I’d like to introduce you to extraordinary: MÄNNKITCHEN Black Pepper from the Kampot region of Cambodia. Kampot is famous for ideal growing conditions and a unique soil composition that produces pepper with exceptional flavor and aroma. Grown the traditional way (with zero synthetic fertilizers or pesticides) our peppers are hand harvested, sorted, cleaned and packaged to bring the pinnacle of pepper to your table. Our Black Pepper, Red Pepper, White Pepper, and Smoked Black pepper all come from the same flowering vine, Piper Nigrum. Black Pepper is harvested when the fruits are full sized but still green, and is the most pungent. It has a slow building heat that excites the palate without overwhelming, and that extra Kampot “Zing” that defies comparison. Red pepper is harvested when the fruit is fully ripe, and has sweeter chocolatey notes and the aroma of dried fruit. Milder building warmth that comforts and excites the senses. White pepper is the seed of the fully ripened fruit with the flesh and skin gently removed. Excellent for dishes where you want savory pepper flavor with no visible trace. Our Smoked Black Pepper is harvested while green, then cold smoked over a mixture of coconut and rice husks, imparting a tantalizing flavor that brings brings depth and bold intrigue to savory dishes. A word on packaging: We use small vacuum sealed bags with oxygen absorbers to insure that your pepper stays at peak flavor and freshness. Each bag of MÄNNKITCHEN pepper is enough for one refill of the Pepper Cannon, because smaller is fresher! The contents of large containers degrade faster than the contents of small sealed containers due to frequent opening. Store in a cool and dark location like a safe. (Because others are going to want to steal your flavor.)
