NOT Eleutherococcus and further OT
Jim McKenney (Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:31:13 PST)

Jim W is right about Sichuan pepper being Zanthoxylum and not
Eleutherococcus. Zanthoxylum is rutaceous (not rubiaceous as Jim W reported)
- citrus are also rutaceous; Eleutherococcus is araliaceous. The latter is
sometimes called Siberian (or pick the east Asian locality of your choice)
ginsing.

I've got an old, pre-prohibition packet of Sichuan pepper in the spice rack-
I never was sure what do with it.

Jim McKenney