NPR: seasonings https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=582503739 seasonings en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Sun, 10 May 2026 07:35:32 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: seasonings https://www.npr.org/tags/582503739/seasonings How Did Salt And Pepper Become The Soulmates Of Western Cuisine? The two flavors are mainstays on nearly every Western dining table, but their dominance was far from inevitable. In fact, their dual reign resulted from a "weird accident of history." Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:11:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/02/582477785/how-did-salt-and-pepper-become-the-soulmates-of-western-cuisine https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/02/582477785/how-did-salt-and-pepper-become-the-soulmates-of-western-cuisine

The two flavors are mainstays on nearly every Western dining table, but their dominance was far from inevitable. In fact, their dual reign resulted from a "weird accident of history."

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