“It might be surprising, but black and white peppercorns both come from the same berries on the pepper vine,” says Wilkens. The difference between black peppercorns and white peppercorns is a ...

Black pepper is a flowering vine that’s prized for its fruit (peppercorns!). The black peppercorns are picked before they’re ripe, dried and sold whole (crinkly and wrinkled from the drying ...