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How Did Black Pepper Spread in Popularity

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[[File:Black pepper (By R.Boroujerdi).jpeg|left|550px570px|thumbnail|Figure 1. Black pepper seeds.]]
Visiting a restaurant in the Western world or even a home often means finding salt and black pepper as common condiments on the table used to give taste to our dishes. Salt has been native to many regions and is commonly found; however, black pepper was a far more limited plant (<i>Piper nigrum</i>) that natively grew in South and Southeast Asia. The spread of this pepper is intertwined with ancient trade expansion that once connected the length of the Old World. In more recent times, this pepper became a fixed a daily condiment.

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