Try the cacio e pepe (traditional Roman pasta with Pecorino Romana and black pepper) and linguina alla siciliana (pasta with wild fennel, red prawn and cumin).

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Opened in 1986, El Celler is known for dishes that blend innovative cooking techniques with traditional ingredients, such as lobster parmentier with black trumpets and Iberian suckling pig with pepper sauce and garlic and quince terrine.

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Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, sprinkle with the salt, black pepper, and cayenne, and toss gently to coat.

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Professor Rajan Gerta, from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, said that there are many references to "ships coming with gold, and going back with 'black gold'" - pepper.

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The meat-heavy stop, situated just north of downtown in the industrial Holy Cross area, is home to a full menu of housemade charcuterie from the Spicy Delaware Meatball, a pork salami packed with crushed chili, espelette pepper and garlic, to black truffle bologna.

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Thanks to a few incidents where he needed to change a tyre on a rental car, Dan Pepper said he never travels without a black nylon raincoat with a pouch.

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Brocia may be worldly but he is no James Bond, with his wire framed glasses, faded black shirt, corduroys, and unruly salt-and-pepper hair.

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When we launched the black pepper futures many people asked us why, since most people don't start with that as their first agricultural commodities product, but we thought we could have an advantage with that as an early mover.

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