Archive for February 2nd, 2010
Often times when you go to an upscale restaurant, your waiter or waitress will offer you fresh-cracked pepper for your salad. When I first began being offered this luxury, I always accepted, as it was something fun and out of the ordinary. As I have gotten older and learned more about fine cuisine, I have learned that the extravagance of a pepper mill actually serves a person.
Typical pepper that sits in a shaker has usually been ground months in advance and has lost much of it flavor. Utilizing a pepper mill allows you to freshly crack the pepper each time you use it, and you can even experiment with a variety of different types of peppercorns. Now I have even started using a pepper mill in my own home and noticed a palpable difference in the quality of my cooking.