I was looking for lentil soup recipes and found one from Alto Brown that calls for grains of paradis

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9. Stranger and stranger, thanks.

I needed a long time off, getting too pissed off and had to do some health things. I was still out and about, but you had to look pretty hard to find me.

Do you agree about grains of paradise? The spice isn't bad, it was just given a fancy name as a marketing gimmick because the source was a lot closer to northern Europe and they could market it to poor folks as "just as good as black pepper from India," which it wasn't.

I find the flavor fades very quickly, it just doesn't have the nice burn of freshly ground black pepper.

Then again, I live in the southwest, where flavors are not subtle.