Not exact matches
Licking the last buttery crumbs
from my fingers, I arrive at Le Syndicat du
Piment d'Espelette.
In his cookbook The Basque Kitchen he comments, «Chile powder, even
from mild chiles such as New Mexican chiles, smells and tastes smoky and coarse when compared directly with
piment d'Espelette.
Grown in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, 1832: Chili Peppers: Yellow Tree Capsicum, Red Chile, Small Red Chile, Tree Capsicum,
Piment Longue Petit Tardif, Long Chile
from the East Indies, Long Chile, Long Red Chile, Black Chile,
Piment Violet, Indian Small Red, Cayenne Pepper.
The company sources some unusual spices, too, such as Sichuan peppercorns, Grains of Paradise or
Piment d'Espelette, a ground chili pepper
from the Espelette region of France.
Then there is the regional factor, which states that in order to have a Protected Designation of Origin, the product must come
from a strictly defined geographical area — as with
Piment d'Espelette, which is grown within a group of just ten villages.
Piment de Espelette, a chile
from the Basque region of southwest France, was granted an A.O.C., along with the products made with it.
I love Hélène Darrozerestaurant, maybe because there are few women chefs in France, you see the esthetics of a woman behind the dishes AND she is a great chef also, she comes
from the south - west of France, where I lived for some time, so the typical flavors of this region are exposed in her cooking: she cooks everything in duck fat, and she uses the «
piment d'Espelette» THE ingredient present in almost all my dishes.