Ghost has launched Enchanted Bloom, a new fragrance for women:
Ghost Enchanted Bloom is Ghost’s most romantic scent yet…
Poached Pears with Whole Long Pepper ~ out of the bottle
A new spice shop opened here recently and I went down to see if there was anything delicious and fragrant I could bring to you people. I found several things I’d been looking for — sichuan peppers, nigella seeds, aleppo pepper — all of which we’ll discuss at a later date, and one I didn’t even know existed that I am very excited to tell you about right now.
Long pepper is only one of its names. It also goes by Balinese pepper, Bengal pepper, Jaborandi pepper, Indian long pepper, and various combinations thereof, none of which appear in the indices of any of my many cookbooks and ingredient guides. The internets seem to agree that it is widely employed in Asia for stir fries and pickling, and is featured in North African spice blends such as Ras el Hanout and Berbere.1 The same sources repeat the story that it was the pepper preferred by the Romans, and some add that it was the spice the world thought of as “pepper,” until cultivation methods made the black pepper we are accustomed to today far more widely available. I have a feeling limited availability might explain long pepper’s absence from my cookbooks. (If you are familiar with it, or come from a part of the world where it is commonly employed, do comment.)
At any rate, there it was, on the wall of glass jars devoted to peppercorns…
A man’s world
Actress Keira Knightley in another teaser (and surely, there will be more) for Chanel Coco Mademoiselle. The real commercial is coming next week.
Sex and violence
Sex and violence, or at least death, are the key to reproduction for the orchid Satyrium pumilum. Research led by Timotheüs van der Niet at the University of KwaZulu-Natal shows that the orchid lures flies into its flowers by mimicking the smell of rotting flesh.
— Read more at Orchid Lures Flies With Scent of Rotting Flesh at Science Daily.
Flirt! Luv-a-Licious ~ new perfume
Flirt!, the Estee Lauder brand sold exclusively at Kohl’s department stores, has launched Luv-a-Licious, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. Luv-a-Licious is the line’s fifth fragrance, and is fronted by Glee star Heather Morris…