Salt is grown from crystals. To begin growing salt, you need to find a salt mine (where lots of sea water has dried) or an ocean. The salt mine is easiest since the growing has been done. But if that's not nearby, then the easiest thing to do is to get some sea water, and dry it out. Before salt mines were built, salt was very valuable because of the amount of work needed to dry salt water and get the salt. And it was the main way to preserve foods. Nowadays we don't think anything of salt.
Pepper comes from a tropical vine. It's the berries, that are picked and dried. Whole pepper is the whole pepper berry dried, and ground pepper is the dried pepper berry that's been ground. It's native to India and other tropical regions, and is the most common seasoning in use.
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