Food offers many examples of long-distance cultural exchange. Explain.
Answers
Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ food stuff in distant part of the world might share common origins.
. It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti or perhaps, Arab traders took pasta to Sicily, an island of Italy.
. Similar foods were also known in India and lapan, so the truth about their origins may never be known, but they too travelled from one country to another.
. This is how long distance cultural contacts in the pre-modern era were possible with the travelling of various food items
Answer:
Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chilies, and sweet potatoes and so on were not known to India until about five centuries ago. These foods were only introduced in Europe and Asia after Columbus accidently discovered America.