$30. Buy on Amazon. But, Zhao says, for cooks inexperienced in cooking with Szechuan pepper, the pantry ingredients were intimidating. “Most Americans, they don’t know what to do with Szechuan ...

But, Zhao says, for cooks inexperienced in cooking with Szechuan pepper, the pantry ingredients were intimidating. “Most Americans, they don’t know what to do with Szechuan pepper,” he explains.

He planted the ingredients he’d need on his farm on Vashon Island, including Sichuan pepper trees, which he’d found at a local nursery in 4-inch pots.

Even during the ban years (1968 to 2005, with the most serious crackdown near the end) those in the know found ways to get a Szechuan peppercorn supply.

The final irony of it all is that while canker-infected Sichuan pepper trees are indeed a problem in northern China, according to a 2016 USDA report, ...

The botanic name for Sichuan pepper is Zanthoxylum simulans. It’s the fruit of a prickly ash tree that grows in Sichuan province in China. The flavor is different if the tree is grown elsewhere ...

Sichuan Pepper's Buzz May Reveal Secrets Of The Nervous System : The Salt The Sichuan peppercorn that makes our mouths tingle activates the same neurons as when our foot falls asleep.

Sichuan pepper is citrusy, floral and fragrant, distinct for its tingly, numbing effect. Not a peppercorn but the berry of a tree in the citrus family, Sichuan peppers are combined with salt here ...