1.   A trend these days is cooking beef jammed with cracked black peppercorns.

2.   Coat the breasts lightly with olive oil and season with salt and the cracked peppercorns.

3.   Coat with cracked peppercorns and dill.

4.   Cinnamon and vanilla beans add depth of flavor, while cracked black peppercorns and grated ginger provide heat.

5.   Instead of coating that steak for the grill with cracked peppercorns, for example, rub it with cracked coriander.

6.   The simplest way to keep cracked peppercorns is to buy a bottle of whole black peppercorns, crack them all and return them to the same bottle for storage.

7.   Toss out that old bottle of lemon-pepper seasoning and let freshly cracked peppercorns and minced preserved lemon show what the classic combination was meant to taste like.

8.   We savor a delicate carpaccio of sea bass cured in lemon and strewn with cracked red peppercorns.

9.   You have to sort through the cracked peppercorns, remove remaining whole ones and repeat process.