Pepper is believed to originate from southern India. But some chefs, including the late Anthony Bourdain and the Michelin-starred French chef Olivier Roellinger, have been drawn to pepper produced in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KAMPOT, Cambodia — A nearby sea, flanking mountains, a quartz-rich soil: It’s the perfect spot on earth, devotees say, to yield a product they describe in ...

I recently enjoyed a “real food adventure” in Cambodia with small-group tour company Intrepid, which notes, “Using pepper rather than chili to add spice, Cambodian cuisine is laden with fresh herbs, ...

Kampot pepper, grown in Cambodia, is so expensive because it's considered the Champagne of pepper. In 2016, the European Union awarded pepper grown in this region a protected geographical indication.

Only by the late ‘90s, long after the Khmer Rouge lost power, did local farmers – many with generations’ of peppercorn farming running through their veins – return to their roots. A recent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

With low levels of literacy in Cambodia, it comes as no surprise that storytelling makes up a strong part of the country’s cultural heritage – something that is being showcased at the second Kampot ...

Cambodia's Kampot pepper, a go-to spice for chefs around the world, has joined an elite group of gourmet food items whose names are protected by the European Union, joining products such as Gruyere ...

When French missionary Jean Genoud, in July of 1682, visited Kampot province, he came across a Chinese settlement, which he and his party christened Pontomeas, or Banteay Meas. This kingdom was ruled ...