14 February 2020

Piperine Content Of Different Peppers

Steenbergs has analysed the piperine content of different types of pepper, including true peppers (Piper spp.) and other berries that are used in cooking like pepper.

02 March 2018

A World Of Pepper

A trip around the world of pepper. Overview of the different types of pepper available from around the world - from black peppercorns to Sichuan pepper, from Indonesian long pepper to Penja white peppercorns from Cameroon.

07 October 2016

Penja White Pepper Is Back

Steenbergs Penja pepper comes from a family farm in the Penja region of the Cameroon.  Bought in 1970 from a retiring French pineapple farmer, Salamon and then his son René have converted this 70 hectare plantation over the pepper growing during the...

20 May 2010

New Indonesian Pepper Just Arrived at Steenbergs

I read a book last year called “The Scents of Eden” by Charles Corn – it’s a history of the spice trade.  It was great as the perspective was different from the histories that I had read in the past which always wrote them from the angle of European...