Let's talk peppers. They come in different shapes, sizes, and flavors, and can be hot, sweet, spicy, and mild. Peppers are the fruit from a flowering plant in the nightshade family. Despite all the ...

After black pepper, white pepper is the variety you’re most likely to find in a recipe (or possibly the back of your pantry, no judgment here). If you don’t have white pepper handy, it may be tempting ...

It’s not just you: jalapeño peppers are less spicy and less predictable than ever before. As heat-seekers chase ever-fiercer varieties of pepper—Carolina reapers, scorpions, ghosts—the classic ...

Pepper, the ubiquitous culinary spice, is used in cuisines around the world. Whether it’s adding a little bit of heat to your favorite dish or using it as a natural remedy for a cold, pepper is an ...

The cayenne pepper, C. annuum —50,000 SHUs—is the species from which countless domesticated varieties of bell peppers, jalapeños and poblanos were derived. Tewksbury first studied chilies near the ...