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Pepper is the king of the half‐dozen or so true spices — the ‘aromatic substances of tropical vegetable origin, that make dumb dishes eloquent’ — on which the fortunes of whole nations have been built. It is still the one single spice in greatest demand and the recent local shortages of pepper have merely reflected a trend of the demand for this unique substance exceeding world supply, which is part of its long history.
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