How did salt and pepper become the world’s most popular spices?
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I read a booked called Salt: A world History and I recommend it. You get a better appreciation for just how big a role salt played in human development, basically facilitating discovery of new worlds.
Even the word salt is laced with meaning – coming from the Latin ‘sal’. Roman soldiers were paid in salt sometimes, which is where we get the word ‘salary’. They used it with vegetables and oil which is where we get ‘salad’.
Fast forward to France and new brides were often showered with salt and grooms would put it in their pockets to increase fertility – which is where the word salacious comes from.
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