Menu Dorset Magazine - January 2016

White flaky gourmet salt has long been at a discerning cook's finger tips, that other essential, pepper, is a bit dusty and unloved. Enter the King of Pepper, which is how peppercorns from Kampot, Cambodia used to be reffered to before falling into neglect during the Khmer Rouge era. British spice enthusiast Michael Winters is on a mission to bring it back to the UK. All three colours - black, white and red - recently picked up Great Taste Awards and you can smell why, let alone taste the difference between them and more mundane pepper. They're beautiful fragrant, bright, spicy and borderline addictive when sniffed. We think we've found a new secret ingredient... 

Attributed to Robin Alway