Pepper is great. I was staying in Kampot, Cambodia, a very small town famous within the country for its pepper. The place I was staying had a vanilla ice cream into which they had worked some Kampot black pepper. It was then served with a mango and/or pineapple sorbet. Sounds weird but the spiciness of the pepper, the smoothness of the vanilla, and the tartness of the sorbet combined to make a full-blown flavor jamboree in my mouth. I really miss it thinking about it now, actually.