The peppercorn smell is wild and perfumed, and the taste is electric. Devotees swear it's both addictive and medicinal. It literally numbs the mouth, but also imparts a woodsy hint of pine and ...

For starters, they’re not actually peppers. Unlike the red chiles that are also ubiquitous to Sichuan cooking, these petite “peppercorns” are actually the berries of the prickly ash tree ...

Black peppercorns are used in almost every dish, and that's only one type. Here's where all peppercorns come from and what ...

The Sichuan peppercorn that makes our mouths tingle activates the same neurons as when our foot falls asleep. Scientists are hoping the connection unlocks clues for how to turn those neurons off.

He planted the ingredients he’d need on his farm on Vashon Island, including Sichuan pepper trees, which he’d found at a local nursery in 4-inch pots.

Once you've tasted Sichuan peppercorns, you'll never forget them. These dried berries of the prickly ash tree — no relation to black peppercorns — can produce a sensation variously described as ...

The cookbook includes classics such as roast chicken dinners, and duck and pappardelle, “all with a bit of an Asian mum’s twist,” she said, adding that the cookbook is a tribute to her ...