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Crumbs of Wisdom
Wulfiic of Creigull
A fourteenth-century friar, on the difference between black and white pepper:
“Pepper ripens in the heat of the sun and serpents defend the woods where it grows; to pick it, the trees are set on fire [to drive away the serpents] and the pepper becomes black.”
White pepper therefore comes from places without snakes…
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