Name: Long Pepper
Biological Name: Piper longum
Other Names: Long Pepper, Dried Catkins, Pippali, Pipal
Parts Used: Fruit


from www.worldspice.com

Another find for our friends in the culinary guild, this is one of the
rarest spices in the west. From a cousin of the familiar peppercorn, these
are two inch long bud heads made up of about one hundred tiny seeds, gray in
color, and tightly bunched together. Used for it's peppery-ginger-ish flavor
in ancient times, it's now one of the exotics in complex spice blends like
Ras el Hanout from the Middle East. This spice is great for food
experiments.

http://www.worldspice.com/product_pages/spice_pages/0127long_pepper.htm

they sell if for 4 bucks an ounce which they say equals about 1/4 cup

A *lot*, I venture to say "most" of the sites I saw are connected to
alternative health sites rather than spice sites which is sort of
interesting, and maybe a clue to how to track it down locally. You may be in
the wrong aisle :) Try the herbal remedies section!

:)





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