How did salt and pepper become the staple table seasoning?

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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.

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