Did someone decide to lick a rock and thought it would go well on meat?
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Well, sodium is an essential nutrient. We’ve been enjoying it since prehistory. It’s readily accessible and delicious.
Pepper was the easiest of the spices produced in Asia to transport, since it works well dried, is hard and hardy, is light, and you don’t need much of it to spruce up some food. For these reasons, it was really the first spice to become globally popular.
salt was also super common bc it was used to preserve meat. it dries out all the moisture and so before refrigeration ppl could store meat long term in salt and then it was also pretty tasty
I mean, even dear have figured out “this rock tastes good, I should lick it”
sodium is vital for all animals, if you dont have enough, you crave it to the point where if you smell salt you will find out where that smell is comming from and lick it.
So our body rewards this by making it taste good in small concentrations, but not in high concentrations so you dont want to only eat salt.
You can think King Louis XIV of France for bringing these together. Before him the use of spice and seasoning were used in foods to show of wealth. They didn’t have Instagram to flex with the bling back then. If someone could serve meals with dishes that featured exotic spices. They were well to do. Of course the Royals wanted to be the biggest flexers. It also didn’t matter if the food tasted the best. It was all about showing others what you could obtain.
Then along comes Louis XIV. Lou didn’t much care for all those fancy spices & seasonings. He would only want his cooks to use just salt & pepper. Since the people of the royal court followed the lead of the King Flexer. They ended up imitating this practice and it spread on from there.
Have you tasted that stuff? It’s delicious!
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