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Chingmay Anaïs Jo's avatar

Thanks for sharing. I knew about salt but not much about the history of pepper and Louis XIV’s preference for food. I am going to read up on La Varenne now.

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Sleepless Curiosity's avatar

It was quite interesting to read into this. It's still obviously fully m folk lore as we don't know exactly, but many signs point to true.

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Rough Draft's avatar

really interesting! I had no idea the word salary was related to salt!

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Sleepless Curiosity's avatar

Neither did I!

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